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Nursing Group Project

In this small group, a gestalt-existential theoretical framework is the appropriate analytical tool (Janosik & Phipps, 1986, p. 48). The group concentrated its efforts on the project at hand (developing a presentation), and focused little on previous history or activity. Objections and resistance was overcome as members worked to achieve a specific goal, but the focus of the group was on changing behavior which impeded progress, not on analyzing the root causes of that behavior, as would be typical in a psychoanalytic framework context. The leader used direct confrontation to expose resistance, and the participants identified ways in which different approaches could be tried in order to arrive at a new and workable solution.

The purpose of the group was to put together a group presentation for a class project. The presentation would be given before the entire class, and would focus on a topic of general interest to other nurses. Each of the members was interested in preparing a presentation which would be effective and communicate the information well, but there were differing individual goals, with two group members more concerned with the grade that they received on the project than the third. For the third member, the grade was of secondary importance; the overriding goal for this member was to produce a feeling of self-satisfaction based on having worked together to create a presentation which satisfied her personal standards. Although these goals differed significantly from one another, they proved to be a source of only minor conflict, with the primary point of resistance being the level of supporting research necessary to complete the assignment.

When members of a group go into the group knowing one another, they bring with them the history of their relationship with one another; this influences the dynamics of the group. In this situation, the members were selected based on their seating arrangement. All of the g...

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