Transforming Through Group Process STAGE IV: COMPLETION, THE END When the purpose of the group has been achieved, or if the time for the group has expired, the group is faced with transforming. Transforming can take one of two paths. … Continue reading →
Re-Cycling Through the Group Process Groups may proceed through the three stages quickly or slowly; they may fixate at any given stage, or they may move quickly through some and slowly through others. If they do indeed complete all three … Continue reading →
Norming and Performing in Group Process STAGE III: ADULTHOOD Now, the frustration of the first two stages is behind them — in the past, and the group can finally pull together as a real group, not merely a collection of … Continue reading →
Storming in Group Process STAGE II: ADOLESCENCE When a common level of expectation is developed, the group can then move into the stormy stage of Adolescence. This can be a most difficult stage of development to tolerate. This stage cannot be … Continue reading →
Forming in Group Process STAGE I: INFANCY Regardless of what events give birth to a group, as it begins, it has to form, to come together. The behaviours in Stage I are initially polite and superficial as each person seeks … Continue reading →
Understanding Group Process GROUP CYCLES FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Adapted from the work of Richard Weber, NTL, 1982) During our lives, both professional and social, we all have experienced times in being in or with groups that have worked and … Continue reading →
The Psychology of Suggestions What is a suggestion? 1. A suggestion is any single thought, series of thoughts, ideas, words, beliefs, or actions given in any manner direct , indirect, conscious, unconscious, that changes or alters a person’s normal behaviour … Continue reading →
Regression in Hypnotherapy Here I give two techniques for the regression section of the session, firstly using Ideo-motor responses, secondly a free-floating regression. Alternatively you can simply ask questions! While regressing, there are some basic considerations: Clean language is an absolute … Continue reading →
Research in practice Why should research be of interest to a therapist in practice or to the student in Social Science?’ Consider the following issues for a moment and then write down in Work Box One how you think applied … Continue reading →
Harry Stack Sullivan Harry Stack Sullivan puts forward multi-axial formulations of human development. According to his cornerstone one-genus postulate, firstly, human beings resemble each other more than any other organism: âthe differences between any two instances of human personality – … Continue reading →
