Help the group members to reexperience their groupness at the point of termination. Highlight cultural, gender, and other diversity issues. Social work group interventions take many forms and are directed at many different issues. For those interested in group treatment, Yalon still offers on of the best texts. His 11 therapeutic factors provide a nice typology of group goals.
Groups can vary on a number of continuums - including length and degree of structure.
Our identity develops and is usually tied to various group relationships. Consider some of the challenge in the coming out process as one renegotiates these relationships. Focus on ways that group interventions can facilitate this process.