Instructions
This semester you will complete a Personal Toolbox Journal in several modules. The toolbox will be a place where you can add social work skills you are learning about, using, and exploring through each module, the readings, and your experiences in the field.
As you add to your developing skills in each module, you will have a set of tools accumulated over the course of this semester. It will be interesting to watch how your skills develop and be able to reflect back on the way you used them in the beginning of our work, compared to how you use them over the course of your first-year internship. This is a personal record and a way to actually witness your own growth and development as a professional social worker.
This week, think about the following group work skills:
Establish group purpose.
Build group cohesion.
Protect group membership.
Provide conflict resolution.
For each of these skills do the following:
Name the skill.
Define the skill.
Discuss the use of this skill.
What is the purpose of this skill?
How does the skill enhance group functioning?
What concerns do you have about using this skill?
Give an example of how you used or would use this skill in your field placement.
Reflect on how using each of these skills might or do present a challenge for you. You can use some of the examples from the film as a point of reference if you if have not had experience running your own group.
In what ways would they be useful?
How did the discussions of this week enhance your understanding of these skills?
