Understanding Competitive and Disruptive Group Behaviors

Groups Exercises: Chapter 4 Exercise 4.4: The Effects of a Competitive Group Member (p. 113) Goal : This exercise is designed to help you understand the effects of a competitive group member and to then reflect upon what a group might constructively do to minimize the adverse effects of a competitive member. 1. Describe the behaviour of a competitive person in a group in which you participated. Did the competitive behaviour adversely affect the group? If “yes” please specify the adverse effects. 2. When a competitive person adversely affects a group, what constructive course of action might the other group members take in order to minimize the adverse effects? Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 4.6: Your Yielding to Group Pressure (p. 120) Goal : This exercise is designed to help you understand that all of us have yielded at one time or another to group pressure. The exercise also helps you understand your feelings about yielding. 1. Describe a group that you participated in, in which you yielded to group pressure. Specify the issue or action that you yielded to. (If you have difficulty in identifying a time when you yielded, feel free to identify an issue in which you yielded to pressure from your parents.) 2. Specify your thoughts and feelings during the time when you yielded. Also specify your thoughts and feeling after you yielded. 3. If you had to do it over, would you still yield? Why or why not? Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 4.8: Handling Disruptive Behaviour of a Group Member (p. 128) Goal : This exercise is designed to help you better handle the disruptive behavour of a group member. 1. Describe the disruptive behaviour of someone who was also a member of a group in which you were involved. 2. How did the disruptive behaviour affect the group? 3. What actions (if any) did the other group members take to attempt to minimize the effects of the disruptive behaviour? Were the actions effective? 4. If the actions were not effective, review the material in this text on handling disruptive behaviour. What actions might have been taken by you (or other group members) to more effectively handle the disruptive behaviour? Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

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