1) Cohesion: Cohesion is one therapeutic factor that is necessary for a group’s development to get off to a good start. This concept is analogous to the therapeutic alliance that is desired for successful treatment with individuals. What do you think the co-leaders might do to build group cohesion? What would you do to enhance this therapeutic factor?
(2) Therapeutic Factors: Irvin Yalom postulated the widely used therapeutic factors that surface in successful groups. These factors are: instillation of hope; universality; imparting information; altruism; the corrective recapitulation of the primary family group; development of socializing techniques; imitative behavior; interpersonal learning; group cohesiveness; catharsis; and existential factors. Have a list of those factors available, and look for examples of them as the group unfolds. Which factors do you predict are most likely to emerge in a group of this type? Which ones do you believe will less likely show up in a group with fifth graders?
(3) Some definitions of culture are: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (popular culture; southern culture); the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (a corporate culture focused on the bottom line); the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic (studying the effect of computers on print culture; changing the culture of materialism will take time). How might you explain culture to this group? How might you make the above definitions developmentally appropriate?
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