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The Middle Stage: Specialized Methods

The Middle Stage: Specialized Methods. Intervening with Individual Group Members. Three assessment and intervention areas: Intrapersonal Interpersonal Environment **The assessment area and coinciding intervention (treatment plan) area MUST match!. Intervening with Individual Group Members.

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The Middle Stage: Specialized Methods

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  1. The Middle Stage: Specialized Methods

  2. Intervening with Individual Group Members • Three assessment and intervention areas: • Intrapersonal • Interpersonal • Environment **The assessment area and coinciding intervention (treatment plan) area MUST match!

  3. Intervening with Individual Group Members INTRAPERSONAL INTERVENTIONS: • Identify and discriminate among: - thoughts - feelings - behaviors (interpersonal) • Recognize associations between specific thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

  4. Intervening with Individual Group Members • Analyze the rationality of thoughts and beliefs • Change the distorted or irrational thoughts and beliefs • Cognitive restructuring • Cognitive self-instruction • Thought-stopping • Reframing • Cognitive imagery • Implosion • flooding • Progressive muscle relaxation • Systematic desensitization

  5. Intervening with Individual Group Members INTERPERSONAL INTERVENTIONS • Learning by observing models • Learning by role plays • - assessment • - simulation • - understanding • - decision-making • - behavior change

  6. Intervening with Individual Group Members • Primary role-plays • - own role • - role reversal • - autodrama, monodrama, and chairing • - sculpting and choreography • Supplementary role-plays • - on-the-spot interview • - soliloquy • - doubling • - mirror • - sharing

  7. Intervening with Individual Group Members ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS • Connecting members to resource • Expanding members’ social networks • Modifying the contingencies that result when members perform desired behaviors • Planning physical environments to facilitate members’ goal achievement

  8. Intervening with the Group-as-a Whole • INTERVENING WITH GROUP DYNAMICS • Changing the communication and interaction patterns • Changing the groups’ attraction for members – cohesion • Using social integration methods (social control methods) effectively • Changing group culture

  9. Intervening with the Group’s Environment • CHANGING THE GROUP’S ENVIRONMENT • Increasing agency support for group work services • Links with interagency networks • Increasing community awareness

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