Word: grouped
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...Kahn, Director of Psy chological Research for the Children's Unit at Metropolitan State Hospital and also for the state Department of Mental Health, has supervised Phillips Brooks House case-aide programs for three years. Groups of Harvard and Radclifle students in this program go out to various hospitals, including Met State, once a week to see individual patients. The group discusses their visits with a professional consultant...
Different students join the program for different reasons, mostly because they come equipped rather differently for the work that they're going to do. A fairly consistent thing develops in case-aide work, and that is, through the year, a kind of group feeling or group coherence which grows up among the case workers in any given group. It comes from the discussions. Each group has a day leader--he's a student--and a [professional] supervisor. The frequency with which they meet with the professional person--advisor (I guess everyone's a professional person)-- varies very much from group...
What you get, then, eventually, in a good working case-aide group, is a kind of group process--normal group process, not group therapy. This is definitely not group therapy. You get a normal group process, provided that the membership doesn't flit in and out and provided that they do bring a certain amount of dedication to their work...
...have an almost classic pattern in these groups. The sooner the population of the group coheres, the sooner the effects of the group set in. Students won't express themselves in the group until they feel comfortable, so you have to have a stable population. The first two or three weeks, it's frightening, it's exciting, it's exploratory...
...then crucial that the supervision not become group therapy. But personality changes in the case-aides do occur. Students who are aware of their own problems actually do change in their relationships with their families. The girls start out talking about "Daddy," but by the end of the year they're talking about "my father." This is just a little bit different. The boys, some of them, become aware of their relationships with their brother, and so forth, but none of this is discussed in the group. This is something they do internally. This...