Using the Yalom and Leszcz (2020) text (ATTACHED BELOW) and one additional article from your own research, you must illustrate a good grasp of how you would establish, maintain and facilitate cohesion, racial and social dynamics, emotional comfort and vulnerability among members attending this simulated group. Specifically, you should highlight your thought process on what promotes and what may detour a cohesive group experience (e.g., selection process, lack of commonality among group members). In your paper, you can apply the abovementioned knowledge (e.g., Yalom’s therapeutic factors or specific stages of psychotherapy) to this proposed group of adults, children, adolescents or older adults. Please provide envisioned examples of what cohesion or detours would look like in your group and how you might (as the group therapist) intervene (or not) or bring such observations to the group’s attention. Provide rationale why you would take certain action or not in order to sustain optimal therapeutic setting for group members’ cohesion and disclosure.
