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When the individual or group quits before the prescribed time or goal is reached
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Group leader uses directive forms of group therapy and maintains control of the group.
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An event that has the power to shape or influence the group positively or negatively.
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An individual will go against the leader-authority when he/she feels the power of the group behind him/her.
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As a group increases in size, it will become less productive.
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An interpersonal communication pattern of a group member speaking immediately after the person across from them has spoken.
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The primary purpose is to provide support and protect members from psychological stress and urge them to change their existing conditions.
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Term frequently reserved for professionals who have been trained to lead in tandem and to replicate the parental structure.
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Individuals learn they are not unique in the sense that they are the only ones to have a problem, which problem is or is not as severe as another, and that people do get better.
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A small group in which there is face-to-face interaction where the members adhere to interdependency and identify with each other.
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Refers to the tendency of an individual to process information sluggishly and to adhere to a rigid frame of reference that is inappropriate and inadequate for coping with emerging issues.
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The process of making an individual feel worthy.
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Term developed by J. L. Moreno describing a technique for measuring the social relationships linking group members. A sociogram is constructed from the response of group members.
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Introductory exercies or techniques designed to develop communication between two or more individuals.
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Irvin Yalom teaches and leads groups in present experiencing utilizing the self-reflective loop composed of self-disclosure and feedback.
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Occurs through group social influence; there is a change in beliefs or actions
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The collective striving for unanimity that overrides group members' motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.
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Members who feel anonymous and invulnerable will succumb to behavioral contagions, passing emotions from one another in a group and are suggestible to a collective mind.
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Existential term that entails a physical and pyschological contact in a group context that is of an intense nature between individuals.
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Worked and associated with Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler, who were gestalt psychologists. Was interseted in what motivated individuals; studied group dynamics. Credited with the term "group dynamics".
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The transmission of cues triggering behaviors in other’s that may be similar to the one transmitting.
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Leader technique used to counteract nonproductive group work.
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In communicating, the person receiving the message will reduce the amount of information he/she has to receive by remembering less of the message.
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The study of behavior in groups regarding the nature of groups and group development.
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Term used to denote the easing away from emotional interaction and toward cognitive reflection.
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One set of roles in which members set about to reach the goal of the group. These role functions are more interested in the task accomplished than the emotional aspects of the interactions.
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Behaviors which structure and regulate the performance of the individual's behaviors and judgements.
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One method of this is to form subgroups to monitor each other's behavior.
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Refers to the amount of influence or force a person can exert on a second person, divided by the resistence the second person can apply to that force.
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