FRHD 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoeducation, Social Actions

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2350
• Professor: Kristen Cairney

Document Summary

Group: a number of people drawn together for a natural and purposeful experience involving mutual interacion over a period of ime. Elements of groups: group type, group structure and form, group process, group facilitaion, group development. Task groups: a group that is formed to achieve speciic goals and tasks o o o o. Parent teacher meeings, agency task groups, community groups (think tank, poverty eliminaion group) Focused on compleion of a project or development of a product. Atainment of the desired ends is very important and concerted atenion is paid to the tasks. The objecives help determine how the group operates as well as the roles played by the members. Treatment groups: a group whose members meet to produce behavioural change in one another o o o o o. Help people develop more posiive aitudes and beter interpersonal skills. Use group process as a way of facilitaing behaviour change.