Group Processes and Group Work Practice: Advanced Skills for Therapeutic Recreation and Health Prom
Overview
Group Dynamics Theoretical Foundations: A Review
- Group environment: physical
- Group emotional climate and culture
- Communication and interaction patterns
- Group cohesion: involvement and attraction
- Group norms, membership roles, power and status
- Group goals and productivity
Group Practice/Group Techniques
- Facilitating effective group dynamics
- Multicultural perspective of group work practice
- Diversity competent leadership
- Effective co-leadership
- Ethical and legal issues in group work practice
- Research orientation to practice
Experiential Education/Adventure Programming
- Action centered programming
- Success/assets focus
- Scale of experientiality
- Process of experiential education
- Facilitation techniques for adventure programming
Group Assessment
- Principles of group observation and data collection
- Methods of assessing group members
- Methods of assessing the group as a whole, group dynamics
- Methods of assessing the group environment, the agency
- Linking assessment to intervention
Group Program Planning: Health Promotion
- Program protocol
- Session planning
- Experiential, consumer centered approach
- Implementation
- Evaluation
Professional Reflective Practice
- Ongoing reflection and self-evaluation
- Peer leadership evaluation
- Leisure/discussion
- Small group assessment
- Service learning project: Health promotion program plan
- Reflective practice exercises
- Academic reading
- Leadership practice
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written assignments
- Presentations
- Testing
This is a graded course
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- analyze the theoretical foundations of group dynamics (process) and group practice (techniques)
- synthesize a theoretical orientation upon which to guide group practice
- describe how experiential education and adventure programming principles and practices can be applied in therapeutic recreation service delivery
- describe ethical group practice, including adapting to diversity
- assess the dynamics (process) of a small group
- plan a health promotion program for a small, community-based group
- demonstrate advanced leadership skills in the implementation of the health promotion program
- evaluate the health promotion program
- analyze the group work practice of oneself and of the co-leader
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Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for THRT 3506 |
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Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU HKIN 195 (3) |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC EPHE 252 (1.5) |