Integrating your understanding of stage development with the knowledge of group challenges, how would you deal with avoidance (or resistance) by the entire group? How would you know it was happening? What skills would you need to address it? What would be some specific techniques you would try to use? How would you ascertain if those interventions were successful? How might this avoidance relate to your inability to maintain a safe and therapeutic setting?

Integrating your understanding of stage development with the knowledge of group challenges, how would you deal with avoidance (or resistance) by the entire group? How would you know it was happening? What skills would you need to address it? What would be some specific techniques you would try to use? How would you ascertain if those interventions were successful? How might this avoidance relate to your inability to maintain a safe and therapeutic setting?

Integrating your understanding of stage development with the knowledge of group challenges, how would you deal with transference and countertransference? What might be some different strategies, depending on what stage of development the group is in? What might be the different strategies given the type of group you might be conducting? Give examples of possible transference or countertransference and state the techniques and methods that you would attempt.

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READING AND RESOURCES
Read Chap 9: Existential Approach to Groups

Read Chap 17: Comparisons, Contrast and Integration

Read Chapter 6 in TIP 41. Pay particular attention to p. 105 -108

Review this weeks Key Terms.

TIP 41 reviews some of the important concepts of transference and countertransference as well as resistance. These are not necessarily problem developments in groups as long as they are managed correctly. The appropriate inventions will also be addressed.

Read the following located in the Library Guide in Course Resources:

Dill P., & Wells-Parker E. (2006). Court-mandated treatment for convicted drinking drivers. Alcohol Research & Health, 29(1), 4148.

Hagedorn, W. B. (2011). Using therapeutic letters to navigate resistance and ambivalence: experiential Implications for group counseling. Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 31(2), 108126.

Patra, J., Gliksman, L., Fischer, B., Newton-Taylor, B., Belenko, S., Ferrari, M., Rehm, J. (2010). Factors associated with treatment compliance and its effects on retention among participants in a court mandated treatment program. Contemporary Drug Problems, 37(2), 289319.

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