The Power of Purposeful Sessional Endings in Each Group Encounter

Birnbaum, Martin L.; Msw, Andrew Cicchetti

doi:10.1300/j009v23n03_04

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“…Focus group discussion guides often have a section called 'wrapup'. In groupwork, this can be an opportunity for purposeful endings (Birnbaum & Cicchetti, 2001) that allow participants to evaluate their experience in the group and to add further ideas that lend insight to the work of the session. Papell (2007), in her refl ections on 60 years in social groupwork, says that social action has been an essential element in groupwork Focus groups and social groupwork promote diversity and human rights in an organization philosophy and that activities have always been a viable and necessary part of social groupwork .…”

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Exploring exclusion

Sulman,

Kanee,

Day

et al. 2012

GPWK

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Listening to the voices of exclusion can heighten our awareness of the crucial nature of equity in any organization. This paper describes qualitative focus group research that utilized social group work skills and techniques to deepen the understanding of diversity and human rights in a hospital workplace, and helped lead to change in its culture. Groupwork skills and activities that encouraged participants to share their authentic stories will be illustrated. In addition, the paper will outline the background to the research, summarize the outcomes, and document the process in which the group research itself became a social action intervention in the organization.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…In this activity, the group as a whole ranks the importance of issues that are described on a set of cards illustrated with pictures and statements. Purposeful endings allowed participants to share perspectives on their experience in the group (Birnbaum & Cicchetti, 2001).…”

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Exploring exclusion

Sulman,

Kanee,

Day

et al. 2012

GPWK

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“…Although focused on the other end of a group session, Birnbaum and Cicchetti's (2000) article on sessional ending skills resonates with the checkin concept. They said, "Individual and group development is enhanced when the group worker recognizes that single sessions have beginning, middle and ending phases (p. 37).…”

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“…The matching of group-work skills with stages of group development is a subject generously covered in the social group-work literature (BermanRossi, 1993;Birnbaum & Cicchetti, 2000;Duffy, 1994;Garland, Jones, & Kolodny, 1973;Glassman, 2009;Kurland & Salmon, 1998;Northen & Kurland, 2001). A less explored topic is teachers' understanding and use of classrooms as laboratories for teaching about group work.…”

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The Purpose, Benefits, and Challenges of “Check-in” in a Group-work Class

Clemans

2011

Social Work With Groups

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The purpose of this article is to illustrate, through teaching examples and student logs, a technique, called "check-in" routinely used in the author's group-work classes. Check-in is a process where students are invited, in the beginning of each class, to share their struggles, questions, dilemmas, accomplishments, and failures related to their group-work learning. Check-in requires students to listen and offer support, ideas, challenges, and guidance to each other. The goal of check-in is to help students develop their group-work skills and knowledge. Integrating democratic teaching practice with group stage development theory, particularly beginnings and middles, this article explores the process, complexities, and skills inherent in the check-in process. Implications for group-work practice skills are discussed.

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“…Signifi cantly, group movement through the total group experience, is affected by group development in individual sessions. As Birnbaum and Cicchetti (2000) suggest:…”

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A model for working with the group life cycle in each group session across the life span of the group

Birnbaum¹,

Cicchetti²

2012

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Developmental stage theory has been well attended to by groupwork theorists. A neglected area in the group work literature is the stages, or phases, of group development in each group session. The paper provides a holistic model for sessional groupwork practice that includes tasks and skills in the beginning, middle and ending stages of individual sessions, problems typically encountered in sessional work, transition between sessional stages and connectedness between sessions.

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The Power of Purposeful Sessional Endings in Each Group Encounter

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Exploring exclusion

Exploring exclusion

The Purpose, Benefits, and Challenges of “Check-in” in a Group-work Class

A model for working with the group life cycle in each group session across the life span of the group

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