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TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING
Fiefiey
Santiana
TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING
GUIDANCE
GROUP
T-GROUP
SENSITIVITY
GROUP
COUNSELING GROUP
THERAPHY GROUP
GUIDANCE/PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL
GROUP
 Aim ; To spread information
 Topic : Chosen by the counsellor.
 Approach : preventive approach. Give
information of prevention such as AIDS, time
management, study skill.
 Learn information about a particular topic or
issue and might also help group members
cope with that same issue (e.g. support group
for a suicide, transition group to prepare
students to enter high school etc.)
COUNSELING GROUP
 Aim: Focus on individual problem. Each
member has a chance to be heard including
the facilitator.
 Topic : No specific topic. Things they feel
comfortable to talk in public.
 Approach: Therapy format
 Number of members: 5- 10 members
 Counsellor’s role : To create conducive
condition without any depressed or
threatened condition.
THERAPHY GROUP
 Aim : to obtain relief from particular symptoms
or to pursue personal change.
 Topic : No specific topic
 Approach: Clients are helped by listening
to others discuss their problems (including
problems more severe than theirs) and by
realizing that they are not alone.
 Groups give the individual client the chance
to model positive behavior they observe in
others.
 Number of members: Six to twelve clients
who meet at least once a week.
 Therapist's role : facilitating member
participation and interaction, focusing
conversation, mediating conflicts among
members, offering emotional support
when needed facilitating
T- GROUP
 Definition : a group of people under the
leadership of a trainer who seek to
develop self- awareness and sensitivity to
others by verbalizing feeling uninhibitedly
at group session. ( Merriam Webster
Online)
 Number of member: 8-20 members meets
several times
 Aim : Work on reducing defensiveness and
achieving a maximum of openness and
honesty.
 Climate of trust develops among the group
members, and they increasingly abandon the
defences habitually used in dealing with other
people.
 increased self-awareness resulting from
sensitivity training is presumed to change a
person's behavior in daily life,
 Their training experiences actually effect
long-lasting behavioral changes
REFERENCES
 Friedman, William H. Practical Group Therapy: A
Guide for Clinicians. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
1989.
 Brammer, L, & Shostrom, E. (1982). Therapeutic
psychology: Fubdamental of counseling and
psychotherapy (4th ed.) Englwood Cliffs, N,J. :
Prentice Hall.

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Type of group counseling

  • 1. TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING Fiefiey Santiana
  • 2. TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING GUIDANCE GROUP T-GROUP SENSITIVITY GROUP COUNSELING GROUP THERAPHY GROUP
  • 3. GUIDANCE/PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL GROUP  Aim ; To spread information  Topic : Chosen by the counsellor.  Approach : preventive approach. Give information of prevention such as AIDS, time management, study skill.  Learn information about a particular topic or issue and might also help group members cope with that same issue (e.g. support group for a suicide, transition group to prepare students to enter high school etc.)
  • 4. COUNSELING GROUP  Aim: Focus on individual problem. Each member has a chance to be heard including the facilitator.  Topic : No specific topic. Things they feel comfortable to talk in public.  Approach: Therapy format  Number of members: 5- 10 members  Counsellor’s role : To create conducive condition without any depressed or threatened condition.
  • 5. THERAPHY GROUP  Aim : to obtain relief from particular symptoms or to pursue personal change.  Topic : No specific topic  Approach: Clients are helped by listening to others discuss their problems (including problems more severe than theirs) and by realizing that they are not alone.  Groups give the individual client the chance to model positive behavior they observe in others.
  • 6.  Number of members: Six to twelve clients who meet at least once a week.  Therapist's role : facilitating member participation and interaction, focusing conversation, mediating conflicts among members, offering emotional support when needed facilitating
  • 7. T- GROUP  Definition : a group of people under the leadership of a trainer who seek to develop self- awareness and sensitivity to others by verbalizing feeling uninhibitedly at group session. ( Merriam Webster Online)  Number of member: 8-20 members meets several times
  • 8.  Aim : Work on reducing defensiveness and achieving a maximum of openness and honesty.  Climate of trust develops among the group members, and they increasingly abandon the defences habitually used in dealing with other people.  increased self-awareness resulting from sensitivity training is presumed to change a person's behavior in daily life,
  • 9.  Their training experiences actually effect long-lasting behavioral changes
  • 10. REFERENCES  Friedman, William H. Practical Group Therapy: A Guide for Clinicians. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989.  Brammer, L, & Shostrom, E. (1982). Therapeutic psychology: Fubdamental of counseling and psychotherapy (4th ed.) Englwood Cliffs, N,J. : Prentice Hall.