Group Leader Charateristics

Reflecting feelings Reflecting feelings involves identifying client emotions and then paraphrasing this emotional component back to the client. Group leaders use this skill to let members know that they are organism heard and understood. 2. Confronting Confrontation is used to assist clients to identify and consider discrepancies in their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in order to nail d profess their problems and issues. Confrontation could be seen as an attack therefore many leaders shy a representation from onfrontation because they timidity its possible repercussions.Skilled convocation counselors only confront when they care about the person, and they do so in a way that gives the person ample opportunity to consider what is being said. 3. Interpreting Interpreting is to provide clients with a broader understanding of their behaviors, attitudes, thoughts, and feelings. If a group leader is not sensitive to the client willingness or unwillingness to go for it the interpre tation may be rejected.Interpreting too soon or in a dogmatic way or encouraging the members to become dependent on the leader to provide meanings and answers are common mistakes of interpreting. 4. final stage fit(p)ting Goal setting allows a client to have a long-term vision and short-run motivation. By setting goals one can achieve more, improve self- confidence, and increase motivation to achieve the set goal. In group counseling the productive goal is at the core, to help members select and clarify their own specific goals. 5.Active Listening Active listening involves paraphrasing and summarizing the clients emotions back to them, asking questions to express what they feel or mean or asking questions to achieve a better understanding of what is being communicated. As a group leader the goal is to listen, many leaders focus to intently on the content and in doing so do not pay enough attention to the way in which group members express themselves. character Corey, G. (2012). Theory and practice of group counseling (8th ed. ) Belmont, CA Brooks/Cole ed. )