The Middle Stage:

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• The Middle Stage
• Specialized Methods

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Intervening with Individual Group Members

• Three assessment and intervention areas
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal
• Environment
• The assessment area and coinciding intervention
  (treatment plan) area MUST match!

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Intervening with Individual Group Members

• INTRAPERSONAL INTERVENTIONS
• Identify and discriminate among
• - thoughts
• - feelings
• - behaviors (interpersonal)
• Recognize associations between specific thoughts,
  feelings, and behaviors

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Intervening with Individual Group Members

• Analyze the rationality of thoughts and beliefs
• Change the distorted or irrational thoughts and
  beliefs
• Cognitive restructuring
• Cognitive self-instruction
• Thought-stopping
• Reframing
• Cognitive imagery
• Implosion
• flooding
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Systematic desensitization

5
Intervening with Individual Group Members

• INTERPERSONAL INTERVENTIONS
• Learning by observing models
• Learning by role plays
• - assessment
• - simulation
• - understanding
• - decision-making
• - behavior change

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Intervening with Individual Group Members

• Primary role-plays
• - own role
• - role reversal
• - autodrama, monodrama, and chairing
• - sculpting and choreography
• Supplementary role-plays
• - on-the-spot interview
• - soliloquy
• - doubling
• - mirror
• - sharing

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Intervening with Individual Group Members

• ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS
• Connecting members to resource
• Expanding members social networks
• Modifying the contingencies that result when
  members perform desired behaviors
• Planning physical environments to facilitate
  members goal achievement

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Intervening with the Group-as-a Whole

• INTERVENING WITH GROUP DYNAMICS
• Changing the communication and interaction
  patterns
• Changing the groups attraction for members
  cohesion
• Using social integration methods (social control
  methods) effectively
• Changing group culture

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Intervening with the Groups Environment

• CHANGING THE GROUPS ENVIRONMENT
• Increasing agency support for group work services
• Links with interagency networks
• Increasing community awareness