University of Tennessee
College of Social Work
SW-525
- Clinical Social Work Practice with Groups
Course Outline
Fall 2003
Section # 79885
Tuesday 12:20
- 3:20
RM 311 Henson Hall
LeAnne
Dougherty, L.C.S.W., D.S.W.
588-1923 ext. 101
Required Texts
Yalom, I. D. (1995). Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, 4th ed. New York: Basic Books.
Reserved
readings available at http://pac.lib.utk.edu:8000/WebZ/html/reservetitles.html?sessionid=01-34193-38903351
Course Requirements
1. Attendance
(non-optional).
2. Responsible participation in class activities and discussion.
3. Completion of all biweekly papers. These type-written papers are due at the start of class and should be emailed to the professor. These papers are to be 3-4 pages in length. They will contain two sections.
a. An applied discussion the concepts and ideas from the readings to the group processes and group content of the class experiential groups. Discuss the relevance and applicability of the theory and concepts of the readings to your own experiences in group. Your self and group observations are a criticalcomponent of this section. Include theory and concepts from prior readings as appropriate.
b. Specifically state your personal change goals for the class experiential group in the next two sessions. Your capacity to examine your own behavior, motivations, and emotional reactions and formulate personal change goals will facilitate your ability to assist clients in specifying how they wish to be different.
4. Biweekly quizzes on the content of the readings.
To take the bi-weekly quizzes, log onto http://online.utk.edu/. You have three hours to complete each quiz. The quiz is open-book, open note, but it is strongly recommended that you thoroughly read all assigned readings for the quiz before taking it.
Though the quizzes are open-book, open-note, they are not collaborative projects. Any copying of the questions, any sharing of questions or answers, any form of collaboration, discussion, or shared information via email or any other medium constitutes Academic Dishonesty as described by UT Hilltopics. As such, it will dealt with by the instructor to the fullest extent allowable by UT Hilltopics, which may include suspension from the class and assignment of an “F” for either the quiz, the class, or both.
f you are inadvertently logged off of http://online.utk.edu/ while taking the quiz, please email Dr. Patterson at dpatter2@utk.edu and inform him of what transpired. Your quiz will be re-set if necessary.
5.Comprehensive final exam - This will be available at http://online.utk.edu/. You will have four hours to complete it.
Grades
Grades for the biweekly papers will be earned on the basis of the quality of the thought and depth of analysis evidenced in them. The first two requirements (attendance and participation) will account for 10% of the grade. The weekly papers will account 35% of the course grade (5% per paper). Biweekly quizzes will account for 35% of the course grade. The final will comprise 20% of the course grade. Grades will be assigned according to the guidelines set forth in the Graduate Catalogue as follows:
Some students find it helpful to enter individual therapy as part of their development as social workers. For students seeking individual therapy, there are two resources available on campus, the Psychology Clinic and the Student Counseling Services Center. They are both described below.
For the past 50 years, graduate student clinicians at the Psychological Clinic
at the University of Tennessee have offered quality mental health services to
students and residents of the surrounding community at affordable, sliding-scale
fees.
The Clinic is available to UT students for individual, marital, and group therapy.
To make an appointment, call the UT Psychological Clinic at 974-2161, from 8
A.M. to 8 P.M., Mondays through Thursdays, or 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. Fridays.
COURSE OUTLINE
First Class - 8-26-03Introduction
Second Class - 9-2-03Group Foundations
Yalom, Ch. 1 - The Therapeutic Factors & 17 - Training the Group Therapists
Third Class - 9-9-03
1st Paper Due
Group Foundations
Corey & Corey, Ch. 5 - Initial stage of a group
Fourth Class - 9-16-03
1st Quiz
Group structure, process and interpersonal
learning. Therapeutic Factors
Yalom, Ch. 2, - Interpersonal Learning, & 4 - The Therapeutic Factors: An Integration
Rose, Ch. 3 - Preparing for group therapy: Planning treatment and orienting members
Fifth Class - 9-23-03
2nd Paper Due
Group Cohesiveness
Basic Tasks
Yalom, Ch. 3 - Group Cohesion & 5 - The Therapist: Basic Tasks
Sixth Class - 9-30-03
2nd Quiz
Creation and Composition of Therapy Groups
Yalom, Ch. 8 - The Selection of Patients, 9 - The Composition of Therapy Groups & 10 - Creation of the Group: Place, Time, Size, Preparation
Toseland & Rivas, Appendix E - Outline for a group proposal
Seventh Class - 10-7-03
3rd Paper Due
Assessment and evaluation of clients
Group Treatment Ethics
Toseland & Rivas, Ch. 13 - Evaluation.
Corey & Corey Ch. 2 - Ethical and legal issues in group counseling
Eighth Class - 10-14-03
3rd Quiz
Setting of goals/Formative stages of group
Preparation for group therapy.
Rose, Ch 6 - Setting individual and group goals
Yalom, Ch. 11- In the Beginning
10-21-03
4th Paper Due
Working in
the Here and Now
Transference and
Transparency
Yalom, Ch. 6 - The Therapist: Working in the Here and Now & 7 - The Therapist: Transference and Transparency
Ninth Class - 10-28-03
4th Quiz
Meditation and Relaxation
Dynamics of damaging group experiences
Rose, Ch. 10 - Involving group members in relaxation, breathing, meditation, and socio-recreational activities.
Smokowski et al.- Postgroup-casuality status, group events, and leader behavior: An early look into the dynamics of damaging group experiences.
Tenth Class - 11-4-03
5th Paper Due
Special Populations
Corey & Corey, Ch. 10 - Groups for adolescents & 12 - Groups for the elderly.
Edwards
& Edwards, 1984 - Group work practice with American Indians.
Hurdle, 1991- The
ethnic group experience.
Roffman, Picciano, Ryan, Beadnell, Fisher, Downey, & Kalichman, Prevention group counseling delivered by telephone: An efficacy trial with gay and bisexual men.
Eleventh Class 11-11-03
5th Quiz
The Advanced Group
Yalom, Ch.
12- The Advanced Group
Pollio,
Reconstructing feminist group work.
Saulnier, Alcohol problems and marginalization: Social group work with lesbians.
Twelfth Class 11-18-03
6th Paper Due
Problem Patients
Yalom, Ch. 13 - Problem Patients
Thirteenth Class 11-25-03
6th Quiz
Special
formats
Specialized therapy
group
Yalom, Ch. 14 - The Therapist: Specialized Formats and Procedural Aids - & 15 - The Specialized Therapy Group
Schiller- Stages of development in women's groups: A relational model.
Fourteenth Class 12-2-03
Extending treatment into the world
Ending the Group's Work
Toseland & Rivas, Ch. 14 - Ending the group's work
Pulling it all together
Final Due
Group Theory and Treatment Bibliography
*Indicates a reading in the course reader.
Bloch, S., Crouch, E., & Reibstein, J. (1981). Therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38(5), 519=526.
Blumberg, H. H., Hare, P., Kent, V., & Martin F. D. (1983). Small Groups and Social Interaction. (Vol. 2). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Bostwick, J., G. J. (1987). "Where's Mary?" A review of the group treatment dropout literature. Social Work with Groups, 10(3), 117-132.
Braaten, L. J. (1991). Group cohesion: A new multidimensional model. GROUP, 15(1), 39-55.
Brekke, J. S. (1989). The use of orientation groups to engage hard-to-reach clients: Model, method, and evaluation. Social Work with Groups, 12, 2(75-88).
Budman, S. H., Soldz, S., Demby, A., Davis, M., & Merry, J. (1993). What is cohesiveness? An empirical examination. Small Group Research, 24(2), 199-216.
*Corey, M. & Corey, G. (1997). Initial stage of a group. Groups: Process and Practice (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
*Corey, M. & Corey, G. (1997). Groups for adolescents. Groups: Process and Practice (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
*Corey, M. & Corey, G. (1997). Groups for the elderly. Groups: Process and Practice (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
*Corey, M. & Corey, G. (1997). Ethical and legal issues in group counseling. Groups: Process and Practice (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
DeLucia-Waack, J. (1997). Measuring the effectiveness of group work: A review and analysis of process and outcome measures. The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 22(4), 277-293.
Dreikers, R. (1959). Early experiments with group therapy. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 13, 882-891.
*Edwards, E. D. & Edwards, M. E. (1984). Group work practice with American Indians. Ethnicity in Group Work Practice. The Haworth Press: New York.
Elman, D., & Rupple, D. (1978). Group discussion members' reactions to a structured opening exercise. Small Group Behavior, 9, 363-371.
Ettin, M. F. (1988). "By the crowd they have been broken, by the crowd they shall be healed": The advent of group psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 38(2), 139-167.
Evans, C. R., & Dion, K. L. (1991). Group cohesion and performance: A meta-analysis. Small Group Research, 22(2), 175-186.
Flowers, J. V. B., C. D. (1989). Four studies toward an empirical foundation for group therapy. Journal of Social Service Research, 13(2), 105-121.
Hack, T. F., Osachuk, T. A. G., & DeLuca, R. V. (1994). Group treatment for sexually abused preadolescent boys. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Service, 75(4), 217-228.
Hare, P. A., Blumberg, H. H., Davies, M. F., & Kent, M. V. (1994). Small Group Research: A Handbook. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Hill, C. E. (1990). Is individual therapy process really different from group therapy process? The Counseling Psychologist, 18(1), 126-130.
Hill, G. W. (1982). Group versus individual performance: Are N=1 heads better than one? Psychological Bulletin, 91, 517-539.
*Hurdle, D. E. (1991). The ethnic group experience. Ethnicity and Biculturalism. The Haworth Press: New York.
Kacen, L. (1999). Anxiety levels, group characteristics, and members' behaviors in the termination stage of support groups for patients recovering from heart attacks. Research on Social Work Practice, 9(6), 656-672.
*Lewis, E. A. & Ford, B. (1991). The network utilization project: Incorporating traditional strengths of African-American families into group work practice. Ethnicity and Biculturalism. The Haworth Press: New York.
Mullin, B., & Copper, C. (1994). The relation between group cohesion and performance: An integration. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 210-227.
Nadler, D. A. (1979). The effects of feedback on task group behavior: A review of the experimental research. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 23, 309-338.
Opalic, P. (1990). Group processes in short-term group therapy of psychotics. Small Group Research, 21(2), 168-189.
*Pollio, D.E. (2000), Reconstructing feminist group work. Social-Work-with-Groups. 23(2): 3-18, 2000.
Pratt, J. (1945). The group method in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders. Sociometry, 8, 323-331.
Reid, K. E. (1997). Social Work Practice with Groups: A clinical perspective. (Second ed.). Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
*Roffman-R.A; Picciano-J.F; Ryan-R; Beadnell-B; Fisher-D; Downey-L; Kalichman-S. C . (1997), Prevention group counseling delivered by telephone: an efficacy trial with gay and bisexual men. AIDS-and-Behavior. 1(2): 137-154, June 1997
*Rose, S. D. (1989). Preparing for group therapy: Planning treatment and orienting members. Working with Adults in Groups: Integrating cognitive, behavioral and small group strategies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*Rose, S. D. (1989). Setting individual and group goals. Working with Adults in Groups: Integrating cognitive, behavioral and small group strategies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*Rose, S. D. (1989). Involving group members in relaxation, breathing, meditation, and sociorecreational activities. Working with Adults in Groups: Integrating cognitive, behavioral and small group strategies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*Saulnier, C. F. (1997). Alcohol problems and marginalization: social group
work with lesbians.
Social-Work-with-Groups. 20(3): 37-59, 1997..
*Schiller, L. Y. (1995). Stages of development in women's groups: A relational model. In Kurland, R. & Salmon, R. (Eds.), Group Work Practice in a Troubled Society: Problems and Opportunities. The Haworth Press: New York.
Smith, K. K., & White, G. L. (1983). Some alternatives to traditional social psychology of groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 65-73.
*Smokowski, P. R., Rose, S., Todar, K., & Reardon, K. (1999). Postgroup-casuality status, group events, and leader behavior: An early look into the dynamics of damaging group experiences. Research on Social Work Practice. 9(5), 555-574.
Spitz, H. I. (1996). Group Psychotherapy and Managed Mental Health Care: A clinical guide for providers. New York: Bruner Mazel.
Springer, T. S., K. (1996). A review of inpatient group therapy for borderline personality disorder. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 3(5), 268-278.
*Toseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (1995). Outline for a group proposal (Appendix E). An Introduction to Group Work Practice. (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
*Toseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (1995). Evaluation. An Introduction to Group Work Practice. (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
*Toseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (1995). Evaluation. Ending the group's work. (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Tutty, L. M., Bidgood, B. A., & Rothery, M. A. (1996). Evaluating the effect of group process and client variables in support groups for battered women. Research on Social Work Practice, 6(3), 308-324.
Wulsin, L., Bachop, M., & Hoffman, D. (1988). Group therapy in manic-depressive illness. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 42(2), 263-271.
Yalom, I. D. (1995). The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. (4th ed.). New York: Basic Books.
Zimmerman, T. S., Jacobsen, R. B., MacIntyre, M., & Watson, C. (1996). Solution-focused parenting groups: An empirical study. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 15(4), 12-25.
Zimmerman, T. S., Prest, L.A., & Wetzel, B. E. (1997). Solution-focused couples therapy groups: An empirical study. Journal of Family Therapy, 19, 125-144.