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NSG 526 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSGroup Therapy primary purpose - Answers-The primary purpose of group therapy is to
facilitate changes by the patient to address identified problems.
A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants
in a group during therapy - Answers-make an observation about the group's silence and
invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - Answers-During group members sharing methods
they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - Answers-consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream
survey. The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to
increase the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
Attachment - Answers-Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships
between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary
caregiver.
Mileu - Answers-Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic,
and cultural status.
Beck assumption - Answers-Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior
(symptoms)
Ellis - Answers-RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - Answers-unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The
purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active,
philosophical, confrontational therapy.
RET assumption - Answers-People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a
desire or preference into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they
become based on their beliefs).
Skinner - Answers-operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - Answers-voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences,
and behavioral responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a behavior
to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative
reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
Skinner - Answers-Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior by
withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the
, classroom when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded by
more attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing
behaviors. Behavior management and modification programs based on his principles
have shown to be successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed learning and
token economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning. Behavioral
methods are particularly effective with children, adolescents, and individuals with many
forms of chronic mental illness.
Universality - Answers-Yaslom: The recognition of shared experiences and feelings
among group members and that these may be widespread or universal human
concerns, serves to remove a group member's sense of isolation, validate their
experiences, and raise self-esteem.
Altruism - Answers-Yaslom: The group is a place where members can help each other,
and the experience of being able to give something to another person can lift the
member's self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal
skills.
Instillation of hope - Answers-Yaslom: In a mixed group that has members at various
stages of development or recovery, a member can be inspired and encouraged by
another member who has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference - Answers-Western
medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body
interactions.
Beck - Answers-Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept that
cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
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depression can be understood via schemas: - Answers-Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency toward
interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the
future).
Imparting information - Answers-Yaslom: While this is not strictly speaking a
psychotherapeutic process, members often report that it has been very helpful to learn
factual information from other members in the group, for example, about their treatment
or about access to services.
Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience - Answers-Yaslom: Members
often unconsciously identify the group therapist and other group members with their
own parents and siblings in a process that is a form of transference specific to group
psychotherapy. The therapist's interpretations can help group members gain
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