Group Leadership skills First generation college students

Additionally, these students may lack adequate finances to sustain their social life on campus. This is realistic due to the differences in financial backgrounds where some of them feel less appreciated by their parents compared to their fellow students. These anxiety levels rise for First Generation College students who try to fit into the new campus environment. For such students “psycho-educational” leadership is needed (Haapalainen, et. al, 2017). Furthermore, the support group leader must be able to formulate the group vision and be determined fully to ignite cooperation within the group, so that every person achieves his target goals (Empowerment Series: Social Work with Groups). For the group leader to be successful: he must have the capacity to effectively communicate with all the students; motivate them by extracting their full capacity; know and appreciate each student member by name, and create a proper strategic plan for every group session(Chen,et.