This study not only experienced group counseling personally, but also learned the theory and technology of group counseling through Professor Wang's specific explanation, which will definitely play a great role in my future school education and mental health counseling.
? Group counseling is a form of psychological counseling with the group as the background. It is a process of helping individuals observe, learn and experience, know and explore themselves, adjust and improve their relationship with others, and learn new attitudes and behaviors through interpersonal communication within groups, thus promoting good adaptation and development.
? Group dynamics is one of the important theoretical foundations of group psychological counseling. A well-run group has the cohesion to attract all members. This power comes from the members' compliance with certain norms and values established within the group, which closely links the individual's motivation needs with the group's goals and makes the group behavior deeply affect the individual's behavior. Lei Wen, a German psychologist and group dynamics researcher, believes that the whole is more important than the part. As a system composed of internal relations, the influence or function of a group is far greater than that of an isolated individual. Group life depends not only on the living space of individuals, but also on the psychological field of groups. Therefore, group counseling has greater influence and better counseling benefits than individual counseling.
Bandura pointed out in his social learning theory that learning is a combination of direct experiential learning and indirect experiential learning. Experiments show that observing other people's behaviors and their results has the function of vicarious reinforcement. People are in the process of growing and changing themselves from birth. People's potential increases with their adaptation to society and re-learning. In group psychological counseling, it provides a guiding social learning situation, and promotes the healthy development of individual body and mind through group experience and modern psychological wisdom.
In addition, carl rogers's people-centered psychological counseling theory, Berne's transaction analysis theory and the research on interpersonal communication, information dissemination and interpersonal attraction in social psychology are also important theoretical foundations of group psychological counseling. A sincere and warm group atmosphere helps to establish good relationships between people, overcome fear and anxiety through mutual care and help, and build a sense of security; In such a group, people can be more open to themselves, enhance mutual understanding, and learn from each other in communication.
? Individual counseling is an effective way of psychological counseling, but its disadvantages are time-consuming, narrow audience and single problem solving. Group counseling can effectively overcome the above weaknesses. It aims to improve the level of mental health by setting up specific situational activities, using the interaction between group members, brainstorming and helping each other, which is very suitable for mental health education in schools.
Its advantages mainly include:
(1) has a wide application range, which is not only applicable to groups with about ten people having the same psychological problems, but also applicable to developing groups with dozens of people;
(2) Various forms, vivid and interesting, which are conducive to attracting students to actively participate;
(3) It is time-consuming, efficient and effective. Each member is both a "helper" and a "helper". In the guiding interaction, he can learn from multiple perspectives, have theory, practice, experience and sharing, and get multiple feedbacks, thus resulting in psychological and behavioral changes. In a group, it can not only influence or change some self-concepts or ideas of individuals more effectively, but also help solve problems that are difficult to solve among individuals.