For this assignment, you will be required to observe a specialized group session and author a reflection paper on this experience. To complete this assignment, you will be required to attend an alternative group experience (e.g., alcoholic anonymous, narcotics anonymous, support groups for depression, anxiety, parenting, incest survivors, eating disorders, post-partum depression, compulsive gambling, sex addiction, et cetera). Workshops, lectures, board meetings, and presentations are not acceptable for this assignment.\u00a0Please identify a local group in your community and contact the facilitator\/providing agency to obtain permission to observe one session of this group for your academic program. Please plan ahead in scheduling this observation activity. Inform the facilitator you will not record, nor discuss any identifying information that you observe. Your focus is to pay attention to group dynamics and facilitation skills during the session.\u00a0To complete your paper, please address all of the following:\u00a0Pay attention to how therapeutic factors take place.
Describe the purpose and setting of the group you observed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Describe the leadership style and any obvious structure of the group.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
How was participation encouraged\/ thwarted? Was the group effective at meeting its purpose?\u00a0\u00a0
Describe how process versus content evolved during the group
If you were leading this group, what would you do differently?\u00a0
Submit your paper in Word version.\u00a0Exact length of paper: two- three pages, not including title page or references; consult your APA publication manual for accuracy of your paper\u2019s structure and writing style; consult the recommended Zinsser (2006) book to improve your writing skills.\u00a0(Zinsser, W. (2006).\u00a0On writing well: The classic guide to writing nonfiction (7thed.). New York,\u00a0NY: Harper Collins Publishers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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