Unit Content
Outcomes
- Discuss group and community principles and processes and how they can influence change processes;
- Apply group and community principles and processes in small group, class-based contexts;
- Critically reflect on past and current group and community experiences alongside your class and personal research to understand your current practice and develop personal development plans;
- Demonstrate the ability to identify ethical and professional issues arising in group or community work and to apply a professional framework to effectively handle these issues.
Subject Content
- Introduction, understanding community work and group work
- Experiential learning
- Goals: START goals, Interdependence
- Group Communication: Sending & Receiving, Communication networks, Roles, Seating positions, Humour
- Leadership
- Power: Constructive vs. destructive power, Dynamic interdependence, Trait theory, Social Exchange Theory
- Decision making
- Controversy Theory, Creativity Theory
- Managing conflicts of interest, Negotiations
- Valuing diversity, Managing barriers
- Cooperative groups: Formal, informal, base
- Leading growth & counselling groups, Types of therapeutic groups, Team building
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Onsite (face-to-face)
- Online (eLearning)
- Intensives
- Extensives
This subject typically has both online pre-recorded lectures AND mandatory online-live components.
Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
- Learning Portfolio (40%)
- Exam (20%)
- Group Leadership and Reflection Reflection (40%)
Prescribed Text
- Johnson, D.W. & Johnson, F.P. (2017). Joining together: Group theory and group skills (12th ed.). Pearson.
Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any textbooks.