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Group Counseling Reflection Paper

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I am a firm believer that there is strength in numbers especially when it involves people who come together because they share similar issues/problem and basically have something in common to work towards. Group counseling offers a great opportunity for people to come together and try and solve their issues. According to Austin (1999), per Cameron (2013 p 27) the group experience in general provides numerous benefits for participants and facilitators which includes providing: fellowship, listening skills, a sense of belonging, parallel of real-life situation, opportunities for peer confrontation, conforming participants to positive group norms, encouragement and praise from other group members, a safe place to experiment with new behaviors, facilitate group interaction and other social skills, positive and negative feedback from other group members, decreasing prejudice by learning of similarities with others, and relieving feelings of personal isolation. I was excited about this course and was very optimistic about what I would learn. I must say I was not disappointed
Having the opportunity to do group counseling has reminded me about the intricacies of group counseling. There are a lot of factors that one have to take into consideration when doing group counseling, which may determine the success or failure so a knowledge of this is very important. I have had the privilege to dive into the core elements of group counseling which have increased my knowledge about the

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