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Group Therapy primary purpose - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔make an
observation about the group's silence and invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - ANSWER ✔✔During group
members sharing methods they personally use for dealing with problems
,CBT - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔Attempts to explain the dynamics of
interpersonal relationships between humans. A child needs to form a
relationship between at least one primary caregiver.
Mileu - ANSWER ✔✔Milieu therapy requires consideration of the
client's social, economic, and cultural status.
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference -
ANSWER ✔✔Western medicine focuses on what is done to the
patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions.
Beck - ANSWER ✔✔Beck developed the cognitive model of
depression and the concept that cognitive processing distortions
underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
depression can be understood via schemas: - ANSWER ✔✔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).
Beck assumption - ANSWER ✔✔Distorted thinking contributes to and
maintains bheavior (symptoms)
Ellis - ANSWER ✔✔RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - ANSWER ✔✔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
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, Skinner - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔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 - ANSWER ✔✔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.