Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Therapeutic tool/ nursing skill – leadership – education/ training

Therapeutic tool/ nursing skill – leadership – education/ training
Scheick, D. M. (2002). Mastering Group Leadership: An Active Learning Experience. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 40(9): 30-9

- United States: Leading therapeutic groups is an underused by viable treatment role for nurses in all specialty areas – it is a skill that can increase nurses’ repertoire of therapeutic responses

- Learning results from both passive reception and active processing of information

- Active learning encompasses a range of teaching-learning strategies emphasizing students’ involvement, investment, and responsibility to learn

- Learning how to lead a group begins by being in a group; each year nursing students are given more of a leadership role accompanied by journal writing to internally process and self-evaluate – students self-teach and expand the therapeutic repertoire of responses

- Recognition that the skills required to produce good group work are different than those required to produce good individual work

- Psychoeducational group model is used in clinical setting

- Structured exercises are used to help facilitate group progress and to help determine the level of self-exploration or intensity

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