INDIV ROLES AND STRATEGIES

• Individual Roles


  • Aggressor
  • Blocker
  • Recognition Seeker
  • Self-Confessor
  • Playboy
  • Dominator
  • Help-Seeker
  • Special Interest Pleader
  • Monopolist
• Aggressor


  • Disapproves of others
  • Attacks group or task
• Blocker


  • Negative
  • Resistant
  • Side-tracks group with irrelevant issues
• Recognition Seeker


  • Uses group as audience
• Self-Confessor


  • Uses group as audience
• Playboy


  • Displays lack of caring
  • Jokes
• Dominator


  • Monopolizes
  • Sees every discussion in terms of self
• Help-Seeker


  • Looks for sympathy
  • Unreasonably insecure
  • Particularly if they didn't do their part
• Special Interest Pleader


  • Uses group to sell their ideology
• Monopolist


  • Monopolizes
• Strategies for the Group Therapist


  • Develop an understanding of the member with the problem behavior
  • Take measures to preserve the group integrity
  • Get the group involved
  • Use feedback from members
  • Compare previous and current performances. Process why they are no longer participative and give feedback.
  • Asking group for suggestions
  • Help members to learn to be more effective in their relationships with each other
  • Asking the group "Why are you allowing this"
  • Asking specific members, "Why are you silent?"
  • Encourage the provision of feedback ("When you speak like that, it makes me feel ___.")
  • Comment on non-verbal behaviors
  • Use self as data to give member feedback
  • Replace boredom with curiosity, "How can I find the real, dynamic person behind the boring shell?"
  • Do not express your anger and frustration
  • Use empathy
  • Understand and process why they are like that
  • Use feedback only when trust is established
  • Get group to give feedback
  • Discuss consequences of behavior on relationships with others
  • Look at patterns of behaviors outside the group
  • Redirect them to the task at hand whenever there would be active episodes of psychosis
  • Encourage socialization but don't apply pressure
  • Identify who among the members seem friendly and accepting
  • Elicit group feedback gently and gradually
  • Encourage members to empathize
  • Gain feedback from the group for reality testing
  • Get them in tune with reality - to what is existing, being processed, being discussed
• The Silent Member


  • Comment on non-verbal behaviors
  • Help member learn about self through their behaviors
  • Get member to explain
• The Boring Member


  • Use self as data to give member feedback
  • Replace boredom with curiosity, "How can I find the real, dynamic person behind the boring shell?"
  • Self-reflect as the therapist
• Help-Rejecting Complainer


  • Do not express your anger and frustration
  • Use empathy
  • Understand and process why they are like that
  • Use feedback only when trust is established
• Self-Righteous Moralist


  • Get group to give feedback
  • Discuss consequences of behavior on relationships with others
  • Look at patterns of behaviors outside the group
• Psychotic Member


  • Redirect them to the task at hand whenever there would be active episodes of psychosis
• Schizoid


  • Encourage socialization but don't apply pressure
  • Identify who among the members seem friendly and accepting
• Narcissistic


  • Elicit group feedback gently and gradually
  • Encourage members to empathize
• Borderline


  • Gain feedback from the group for reality testing
  • Get them in tune with reality - to what is existing, being processed, being discussed