Group Facilitation: Group Dynamics and Progress

This TASK addresses Group Counseling With Inmates: San Quentin Prison, which you viewed in a previous unit.

Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.

C1.GP.E: Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.

• 3. Identify how a facilitator integrate feedback through consultation.

Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

C7.GP.A: Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.

2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

Competency 4: Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.

• C4.GP.C: Use and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and service delivery.

• 5. Discuss the application of best practices or evidence-based techniques of group facilitation.

Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

• C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with clients and constituencies.

2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

• Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

C7.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the analysis of assessment data from clients and constituencies.

• 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

• C8.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
• 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

C9.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the evaluation of outcomes.

2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

• C7.GP.C: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
  • 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

• C8.GP.E: Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.

2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.

•  Instructions
  • Follow these parameters 

Short summary of the sessions.

• Part 3: Group Dynamics.

Description of all four observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:

• Facilitator ability to recognize group members’ verbal and non-verbal messages.

Facilitator ability to interpret group members’ meaning and motivation.

Facilitator ability to manage group members’ participation.

• Facilitator recognition of the cultural roots of expected or accepted forms of communication in the group.

Part 4: Group Progress.

Description of all three observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:

• Facilitator ability to manage sensitive self-disclosure to the group.

Facilitator management of issues of vertical versus horizontal disclosure.

• Facilitator management of content versus process.

Conclusion.

• Explanation of overall facilitator strengths and suggestions.

Assessment of overall group progress from Part 1 to Part 4.

A good supervisor should be able to back up their observations and suggestions with a body of evidence; as such, you should support your analyses with citations from both peer-reviewed literature and your textbook.