ABSTRACT
This chapter describes essential tasks for group members, that is, self-disclosure and feedback, and identifies ways member behavior might prove challenging for leaders. Specific group work techniques include drawing out, giving feedback, I-statements, pairing, paradox, reframing, and self-disclosure. Discussions of group member characteristics often focus on dealing with problem members. A more pro-developmental perspective involves focusing on what members should be doing in a group. Feedback should be timed to happen soon after the event so all members can recall the occurrence and share their observations. When feedback is given by a member on behalf of the entire group, the leader should ask whether this is the impression of just the spokesperson or it is shared by the whole group. Member behavior is sometimes shared by either a few or most of the group members, not just a single individual. It can be unsettling for the leader who worries the group's process will become nonfacilitative.
