Group counseling strategies and skills chapter 6

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Chapter 6

Basic Skills For Group

Leaders

Specific Leadership Skills

1 Active Listening

2 Reflection

3 Clarification and Questioning

4 Summarizing

or among members’ concerns and issues

Make it interesting.

Make it relevant.

Make it short (usually no more than 5–8 minutes).

Make it energizing.

Make sure you have current, correct, and objective information

Specific Leadership Skills

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Specific Leadership Skills

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understand the purpose of the group and are likely to be helpful

Coleading

Advantages of coleading

leading

leader

on topics

Disadvantages

Coleading

Coleaders need to like and respect each

other

Coleaders need to set aside time for

planning and processing each session

then alternate primary leadership role

throughout a session according to a topic or an

exercise…coleader in supportive role

and lead jointly, careful to maintain a

common focus and direction

leader models for a novice leader

Multicultural Groups

Homogeneous Membership

Diverse Membership

Multicultural Needs and Coleadership