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Group Counseling and Group Work

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NCE Quiz on Group Counseling and Group Work, created by Dillon E on 18/02/2020.
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Question 1

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The group theory that encourages spontaneity, creativity, presence, encounter, and tele is:
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  • Person-Centered.
  • Psychodrama.
  • Adlerian.
  • Psychoanalytic.

Question 2

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When a group progresses from the initial stage to the transitional stage, which of the following is observed?
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  • anxiety, defensiveness, resistance, and control struggles
  • cohesiveness
  • self-disclosure
  • control-taking

Question 3

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A member who is terminating from an ongoing or open group should do which of the following?
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  • deal with his or her separation issues
  • close off the unfinished business because of lack of time
  • give feedback to the other members
  • announce ahead of time (sessions) of departure

Question 4

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“Here and Now” reflective loop aims to achieve which goal?
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  • to bring misunderstood communication back to the group for reinterpretation
  • to process through the phases or stages of group maturity and recycle the life of the group
  • to help the group members process their individual development and feedback
  • to enable responsible self-disclosure and feedback

Question 5

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Self-disclosure is more frequent at which stage of group development?
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  • initiating
  • transition
  • working
  • termination

Question 6

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Research in group work suggests that leaders who utilize structured exercises can expect which outcome?
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  • a significant increase in depth of process involvement compared to non-structured leader groups
  • long-term outcome will be less effective than non-structured leader groups
  • the process outcomes will be most positive
  • the members will provide less feedback than those from non-structured groups

Question 7

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The code of ethics for group counselors indicates that a group leader or members of a group are to respect the rights of each group member. Should a member decide to be silent, the members and leaders may be confused as to an appropriate action. Counselors are trained to involve members and also respect members. Leaders should be careful to avoid the use of:
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  • techniques to bring the member out.
  • coercion to bring the member out.
  • a wait and see attitude.
  • non-verbal communication to bring the member out.

Question 8

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The ethical code for growth group formation recommends a pre-interview. One reason for this ethical recommendation is to:
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  • organize a group.
  • ensure that each member knows before the start of a group who the leader is and to reduce the power differential.
  • reduce any pre-group anxiety.
  • eliminate applicants who might possibly exhibit anti-group efforts.

Question 9

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One type of group that can exceed 20 members and still function as a group is:
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  • task.
  • encounter.
  • growth.
  • Balint.

Question 10

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Which of the following is a primary consideration in developing a growth group?
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  • interviewing all group members before the first session to explain goals of the group
  • keeping the group from becoming too large
  • ensuring that a trained, capable leader will be present
  • ensuring that each member feels accepted

Question 11

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In 1992, the Association for Specialist in Group Work (ASGW) published standards for group leaders. Two levels of training are required at the master level programming. The first level refers to the cognitive requirement of knowledge and skill acquisition. The second level for trainees specializes in one of four group work specializations. Which group specialization would emphasize interpersonal and interactive feedback, and support methods in the present?
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  • facilitative
  • psychoeducation
  • counseling
  • psychotherapy

Question 12

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Ambiguity during the early sessions of growth groups tends to have which effect?
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  • fosters competition for communication
  • exacerbates distortions, interpersonal fears, and stress
  • creates norms beyond the group’s maturity
  • causes an increase in the dropout rate

Question 13

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The classical studies conducted to determine how obedience was related to authority and paid subjects to shock other subjects were:
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  • Milgram studies.
  • Bandura's division.
  • Festinger's conflicts.
  • Kelly's constructs.

Question 14

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It is through group ____________________ that members learn to regulate, evaluate, and coordinate their actions:
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  • dynamics
  • norms
  • feedback
  • roles

Question 15

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What leadership style is associated with a small interaction group and member satisfaction?
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  • autocratic
  • bureaucratic
  • democratic
  • laissez-faire

Question 16

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A group with a laissez-faire style of leadership will find members experiencing:
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  • increased anxiety level
  • increased individual power
  • identification with the leader
  • personalized problem attention

Question 17

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During the second session of a personal growth group, a member began to cry and continued intermittently for some time. This was the first time anyone in the group cried. The sharing by different members was a round type of activity in that everyone was giving a brief history of his/her origin. Nothing shared at this point appeared to be of an emotional magnitude to prompt such a response. What should the leader do?
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  • ignore the behavior out of respect and continue with the rounds
  • suggest to the person to take a break for some water and return when he/she is ready
  • create a break for the group and take the person aside privately and speak to him/her
  • do not focus on the person; create dyads with an assignment such as what group experiences each has had in the past and what his/her reaction was to the experience

Question 18

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Group interaction occurs on two levels. The first is an interaction that is conscious, and the purpose is known (public) in the group and is public agenda. The second is hidden agenda. All are signs for the leader when hidden agenda might exist in a group except:
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  • emotions overtake logical thinking
  • personal attacks, scapegoating, grumbling
  • withdrawal into silence
  • lack of coalitions and cliques

Question 19

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In the previous question (hidden agenda) assuming the hidden agenda is a group hidden agenda what strategy might the leader utilize to understand and move through the hidden agenda?
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  • challenge the group regarding the resistance
  • use a specific technique to bring the hidden agenda to the surface
  • maintain control of the group, or it is likely to dissolve
  • leader ask self-questions such as “what does this mean”, “am I pushing too hard”, “is this about me”

Question 20

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A personal growth group has been ongoing for four sessions. One of the nine members has been monopolizing much of the time for most of the four sessions. The two leaders were concerned because it appears as the sessions have progressed more members seem to be involved less, are not listening, and some degree of apathy exists when the monopolistic member starts to talk. The group has not reached cohesion yet, and cohesion appears to be slowing down. The co-leaders have decided that they should do something before charging the membership to deal with the spacing for everyone in the group. What might be a positive step for the co-leaders to take to begin the process without alienating that member?
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  • one of the co-leaders to sit beside the monopolistic member
  • take the member aside and ask him/her to help the leadership involve more members to participate
  • ask the group what they think of everyone’s involvement
  • open up a topic about how much involvement each member might want in the group

Question 21

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A process group has been together for several months. In this particular session, two members have been arguing for some time. The leader decides to use the cutting-off technique and suggests one of the following:
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  • asks the two members to continue the discussion but to tone down remarks
  • asks two of the non-arguing members to discuss the argument
  • discuss the issue calmly herself (leader)
  • shift the focus to a new issue
  • All of the above

Question 22

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A member appears to be rambling, and it has gone on for an extended period. In fact, the leader has noticed this in previous sessions. What is one of the cues that may be an indication for the leader to recognize that he or she should cut off the member?
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  • when redundancy begins to set in with the member
  • when other members start to argue with the rambler
  • when silence becomes noticeable within the group
  • rely on the leader’s experience and feedback from other members

Question 23

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A member of a growth group has been silent from the beginning and for the better part of several sessions. The leader wants to draw the person into the group. What action might the leader take to bring this person into the group?
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  • call on two or three members and through the use of the leader’s eyes determine if the silent member will speak, but the leader should keep in mind to always provide an out for the member
  • ask the silent member what he or she thought about the topic that another member just shared
  • look directly at the person you would like to see share more (subtle non-verbal shift)
  • speak to the person saying that the group would like to hear more from him or her; stress that the group is interested and would like for the person to feel a part of the group

Question 24

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When a member is rescuing another member, he or she is:
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  • providing answers for the focused person, who is unable to provide the answers.
  • smoothing over negative emotions that someone else is experiencing.
  • creating a situation where a focused member will have to deal with a real-life situation within the group.
  • cutting off the focused member from the exploratory phase of the process.

Question 25

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You are a leader in a personal growth group. There are nine members in the group committed to their own group goal(s) and in the sixth two-hour session covering ten weeks. One of the members begins to cry silently and is affected. The leader notices, but there is very little time remaining in the session. The leader should do which of the following?
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  • shift the focus to this member and find out what brought on the tears
  • exercise patience and allow the group to respond to the member
  • probe the member and find out the cause of the trouble
  • break into dyads and pair yourself with this member and assess what has troubled the member

Question 26

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Homogeneous as opposed to heterogeneous groups tend to reflect all of the following except:
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  • greater success in changing permanent behaviors.
  • are more cohesive.
  • are better-attended.
  • have fewer conflicts.

Question 27

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Forming groups by age, gender, or issues tend to generate a group feeling of:
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  • individualism
  • solidarity
  • immunity
  • confidentiality

Question 28

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Different group processes can lead to an attack on the leader. Which one of the following does not foster an attack on the leader?
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  • risk-taking and sharing
  • subgrouping
  • fear of intimacy
  • extra-group socializing

Question 29

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Which of the following is recommended if a group leader should find himself/herself under attack?
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  • play devil’s advocate.
  • ignore the attack.
  • view it as an opportunity to shape new norms and promote group movement.
  • attempt to determine the underlying feelings the group members have by this attack, interpret and give feedback.

Question 30

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Marian has been leading a human-potential growth group for the past ten weeks, meeting for two hours each session. The group has been experiencing some conflicts with the partial resolution to issues in varying intensity and importance to the group members. A critical issue has recently required a resolution so that the group can continue movement. Marian urges the members to reexamine the issues and locate points of agreement in the conflicts. Marian is using which technique of Simpson’s to manage this conflict?
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  • suppression
  • integration
  • compromise
  • power

Question 31

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Mary has decided to enlist the services of a co-leader for a small-group experience in self-esteem. Which one of the following reasons would justify her decision?
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  • collusion
  • competition
  • feedback
  • too leader-focused

Question 32

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The recommended group type for a person with a specific eating disorder is:
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  • Gestalt.
  • person-centered.
  • cognitive-behavioral.
  • psychoanalysis.

Question 33

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Research by Elizabeth (1983) in comparing group treatment methods found which therapy to generate higher levels of anxiety among group members?
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  • psychoanalytic
  • person-centered
  • rational-emotive
  • Gestalt

Question 34

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The term that Janis (1972) described as a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that results from in-group pressures is:
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  • groupthink.
  • emotional contagion.
  • deindividuation.
  • SYMLOG.

Question 35

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A research-based personality and group dynamic which allows a rating on three dimensions (dominance vs. submissiveness, friendliness vs. unfriendliness, and instrumentally vs. emotionally expressive) and 26 roles found in groups is:
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  • NGT.
  • SYMLOG.
  • synectics.
  • cohesion.
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