Also, they feel part of the group because they contribute as expected in this theory. The valance, cohesion, leadership and consensus are important concepts in this theory. To feel part on a group where participation and friendship can help to get their goals.
b) When the leadership could be authoritarian, the power is not in valance and cause problems to get consensus in the group that do not benefit to the members.
Social exchange theory. The levels of interpersonal interaction can involve in in rewards or cost. The reward can explain as a positive experience and costs can be the negative experience.
a)In treatment can work to have interactions with each member of the group. Then, they can experience the reward or costs to interact with member of the group.
b)It is not necessary that we have rewards or costs in interpersonal interactions.
Learning Theory. In this theory people can learn new behaviors and unlearn maladaptive behavior. Also, three types of learning. The first is respondent conditioning that it is react in a specific stimulus. Second, it is modeling that it is observing a person engaging in the behavior desirable and the importance to reinforcement that can be positive or negative. The last is punishment to eliminate a particular …show more content…
It is more to achieve desires goal in the group. I think it is important the boundaries because they can feel identify with patterns that repeat.
b) It is difficult to analyze subsystems and their interactions. It is only to help to achieve goals for the group.
Empowerment Theory. In this theory applies to group five dimensions: social justice (identical rights for all citizens), consciousness raising (to be awareness personally, for others, and socially), mutual aid (provide support, feedback, information), Power (the ability to move people in certain way and achieve some goal), multicultural socialization (the difference in terms of ethnicity, trace, gender, and sexual orientation, class, ability).
a) It is more for task group that want to achieve group goals. I think empowerment is really important for people in group and in social work because social workers give tools to the group to achieve particular goals.
b)It is difficult to convince people who do not feel empower and contagious to