Use of the Reflecting Team Process in the Training of Group Workers

Group work trainees have benefited from experiential instructional methods that allow them to participate in actual group experiences. The reflecting team process can serve as one such instructional method. It provides an experiential component that allows group work students to participate in actual group experiences, with particular focus on group process. This article describes two methods for the use of reflecting teams in the training of group workers. The authors explain the procedures they followed in the application of reflecting teams to group work training and discuss their observations of and recommendations for the use of such teams.