Most of us know intuitively—or perhaps by having learned the hard way—that when a group gets off to a rough start, it is difficult to remedy.
Gina Barker (Gina)
Most of us know intuitively—or perhaps by having learned the hard way—that when a group gets off to a rough start, it is difficult to remedy. Thus, becoming well versed in the best practices for launching a group is essential. Jacobs et al. (2016) do a great job delineating and describing these. Members come to the first meeting with expectations and some degree of apprehension and/or anxiety as they try to predict what they will get out of the group and what their role in the group will be, and the leader must be able to anticipate and respond to these matters.
Jacobs et al. (2016) do not treat the transition stage as a separate phase of group development, which is somewhat surprising, because most group counseling scholars recognize the critical importance of guiding a group successfully though this stage (which is sometimes combined and sometimes termed norming and storming stages, respectively). You will find the ideas in Forsyth (2019) helpful as you discuss its most critical aspects.
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