Group Therapy primary purpose -️️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 -️️make an observation about t...
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Group Therapy primary purpose - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to
comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - ✔️✔️During group members sharing methods they
personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between
humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary caregiver.
Mileu - ✔️✔️Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and cultural
status.
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference - ✔️✔️Western medicine
focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions.
Beck - ✔️✔️Beck developed the cognitive model of DEPRESSION and the concept that cognitive
processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
According to BECK depression can be understood via - ✔️✔️1) cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD
in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
,Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests - ✔️✔️Depression is triggered when dysfunctional schemas are
activated and give rise to negative cognitions and patterns of information processing that precipitate
depression
Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) - ✔️✔️RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
RET (albert ellis) - ✔️✔️is a psychotherapeutic approach that proposes that 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 (albert ellis) - ✔️✔️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).
Operant conditioning - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️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 (Yalom) - ✔️✔️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. knowing ones
experience is not unique
, Altruism (Yalom) - ✔️✔️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.
The act of one member helping another putting others need before their own and learning that
there is value in giving to others.
Freud believed it was a major factor in establishing group cohesion and community feeling.
Instillation of hope (Yalom) - ✔️✔️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.
Imparting of information (Yalom) - ✔️✔️learning factual information from other members, for
example about tmt or about access to services
Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience (Yalom) - ✔️✔️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 understanding of the impact of childhood experiences
on their personality, and they may learn to avoid unconsciously repeating unhelpful past interactive
patterns in present-day relationships.
Development of socializing techniques (Yalom) - ✔️✔️The group setting provides a safe and
supportive environment for members to take risks by extending their repertoire of interpersonal
behavior and improving their social skills.
Imitative behavior (Yalom) - ✔️✔️One way in which group members can develop social skills is
through a modeling process, observing and imitating the therapist and other group members. For
example, sharing personal feelings, showing concern, and supporting others.
Cohesiveness (Yalom) - ✔️✔️Is the primary therapeutic factor from which all others flow. Humans
are herd animals with an instinctive need to belong to groups, and personal development can only
take place in an interpersonal context. A cohesive group is one in which all members feel a sense of
belonging, acceptance, and validation.
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