Any questions on Initial Considerations?
Next… Group Contracts
Group Contracts Safety & Ethics Advertising Assessment Business
Safety & Ethics Clinical Supervision Clear Precise Contracting Appropriate Training Abilities
The Benefits
Safety in Assessments Assessment of group members:• • • • •
Where did they find your details? Are they/have they been in therapy? Medication or Psychiatric Diagnosis Reasons for joining the group? Listen out for Adult responses.
Overall Group Therapy Contracts Admin istrativ e
l a n o i s s e f o r P
Psych ologi
cal
E. Berne (1975)
TA Group Culture Etiquette Technical Character
Permitted standards of behaviour. The Norms and Values. The rational purpose of the group activity. How we express our individual responses. The emotional culture. E. Berne (1963)
Business Group Contract “…in certain situations a third party may have
Three Cornered Contract
an interest in the contract e.g. where counselling or psychotherapy is done within an organisation. Each of the contracts needs to be made clear, e.g. client - therapist, client – organisation, therapist- organisation. This is known as a three-cornered contract.” F. English (1975)
Any questions on Contracting? Next… Readiness
Before Meeting Group Members Ground yourself Take in the space Be with the names of the group
Therapists Readiness “… during the first three minutes the therapist is composing himself [her, them] for a unique experience, for nothing just like the impending meeting has ever happened before, and nothing just like it can ever occur again…” E. Berne (1966)
Any questions on Readiness? Next… Group Development & Treatment Stages
Stages of Group Development Groups go through the stages of:1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Mourning B. Tuckman (1965)
Stages of Group Treatment
1.Grope 2.Grasp 3.Gripe 4.Group 5.Groove
Grasp
Grope
Gripe
Go
Groove
L. Misel (1975)
Just now: Group Development & Treatment Stages? Next… Development of Group Imago
Imago Development Anticipatory Adjusted Adapted Attached
Imago “As with the individual imago, the group imago is the picture the group, as a whole has of itself, and the beliefs it has about how it should or should not act.” E. Berne (1966)
Original Diagram Group Imago
E. Berne (1963)
Anticipatory Group Imago
Trainer
All the other participants Me
J. Hay (1992)
Consider what ‘Anticipatory Imago’ you had of this group training?
Where did that come from?
Adjusted Group Imago Janine the Therapist
Me
Sue Pat
Other female participants Other male participants J. Hay (1992)
Adapted Group Imago
Group Therapist
John
Alice Carl Jane
Closest to leader
Phil
June Chris
Me
Ant
Pat Sue
Dan
Max
J. Hay (1992)
Attached Group Imago John
Carl
Alice
June Jane
Chris
Janine
Me
Phil
Pat
Dan Sue
Max
Ant
J. Hay (1992)
Original Group Imago “Human beings are born into groups; live in groups and identify their sense of being through groups”
P. Clarkson (1991)
Family Group • What’s was it like belonging to your family? • Write one word to describe your family group. • What was your role? • Consider your role and the scripting you’ll bring in that role as a group therapist?