Compare and contrast psychotherapy groups with counseling groups. What advantages can you identify if a psychotherapy group had a membership with diverse presenting issues and degrees of severity? Provide an example of such a group, and describe the role of your faith in working with such issues.
Discuss the working and closing stages of group. What is involved in each stage, and how does your role as the group counselor/facilitator change as the group progresses into the closing stage? What are the anticipated challenges involved with each stage? Give a scenario of one presenting issue during either the working or the closing stage, and identify how you (the group counselor) would address the issue.
Compare and contrast the following functions of group leadership: traffic director, modeler of appropriate behavior, interactional catalyst, and communication facilitator.
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