Group Leader Charateristics

Reflecting feelings Reflecting feelings involves identifying client emotions and then paraphrasing this affective component covert to the client. congregation 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 look at discrepancies in their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in order to resolve their problems and issues. Confrontation could be seen as an bombardment therefore many leaders shy away from onfrontation because they fear its thinkable repercussions.Skilled group 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 accept it the interpretation may be rejected.Interpreting too soon or in a dogmatic way or encouraging the members to bring forth dependent on the leader to provide meanings and answers are common mistakes of interpreting. 4. end setting Goal setting allows a client to have a long-term vision and short-term motivation. By setting goals one open fire 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 occupy and clarify their own specific goals. 5.Active Listening Active listening involves paraphrasing and summarizing the clients emotions back to them, intercommunicate questions to express what they feel or believe 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 present enough attention to the way in which group members express themselves. book of facts Corey, G. (2012). Theory and practice of group counseling (8th ed. ) Belmont, CA Brooks/cabbage ed. )