63rd Annual Conference
Friday,
February 24
Afternoon Workshops
2:45–
6:00 P.M.
Workshop
54
Personal
Change in the Later Phases of Group Development
Chair:
Ariadne Beck,
M.A., CGP, FAGPA,
Private Practice,
Indian Head Park, Illinois
This workshop
addresses the characteristic processes in later phases of group
development in ongoing or longer term groups. The later phases
produce a more complex structure for the support of change in
individuals' core issues, challenging both clients and leaders in
ways that can be described and anticipated.
Didactic-sharing
of work experiences-experiential-demonstration
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Differentiate
between individual process and processes which are typical of
group-as
a-whole behavior,
during later phases of group development.
2. Identify the
informal leadership structure in a group and to recognize the
strengths
and limitations of
those roles in the group.
3. Describe and
anticipate certain individual and/or group level crisis experiences
and
the group phase in
which they are likely to occur.
4. Describe the
salient characteristics of later group developmental phases and to
predict the changes he/she will need to make in leadership style in
order to facilitate group maturation.
Course References:
1. Beck, A.
(1981). Developmental Characteristics of the System Forming Process.
In J. Durkin, (Ed.). Living Groups: Group psychotherapy and general
system theory.
2. MacKenzie, R.
(1997).
Time-Managed Group Psychotherapy. Washington, D.C.: American
Psychiatric Press. New York: Brunner-Mazel.
3. Roller, B.
(1997).
The Promise of Group Therapy: How to build a rigorous training and
organizational base for group therapy in managed behavioral
healthcare. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
