Week 5: Therapeutic value of groups and Answers 100% Pass

Week 5: Therapeutic value of groups and Answers 100% Pass 11 primary factors of the therapeutic experience - ANSWER -1. Instillation of hope 2. Universality 3. Imparting information 4. Altruism 5. The corrective recapitulation of the primary family group 6. Development of socialising techniques 7. Imitative behaviour 8. Interpersonal learning 9. Group cohesiveness 10. Catharsis 11. Existential factors Therapeutic factors - ANSWER -Therapeutic change is an enormously complex process that occurs through an intricate interplay of human experiences therapeutic factors represent different parts of the change process. - ANSWER -Interpersonal learning - cognition Socializing techniques - behavioural change Catharsis - emotion/affect level 2 | P a g e Created by Grace Amelia © 2025, All Rights Reserved. Cohesiveness - precondition for change 1. Instillation of hope - ANSWER -- The instillation and maintenance of hope is crucial in any psychotherapy. - Hope is required to keep clients in therapy - don't believe in something, it won't work. - Faith in a treatment can in itself be therapeutically effective à A high expectation of help before the start of therapy is significantly correlated with a positive therapy outcome. - Selection of diverse clients along the coping-collapse continuum. - A positive outcome à more likely when the client and therapist have similar expectations 2. universality - ANSWER -- Many individuals enter therapy with the thought that they are unique in their wretchedness. - To some extent this is true for all of us, but many clients, because of their extreme social isolation, have a heightened sense of uniqueness. - Their interpersonal difficulties stop them from being validated and accepted by others. - Disconfirmation of a client's feelings of uniqueness is a powerful source of relief. - Clients express great relief at discovering that others share the same problems. - consensual validity: Establishing consensus between observers about the validity or objectivity of an observation or perception - what we are going through is not that abnormal. o H.S. Sullivan: The process whereby patients/ clients compare their own feelings and responses to certain life experiences with the feelings and responses (behaviours) of other individuals who have had similar experiences. - Patients can experience heightened self-efficacy and confidence when they establish that others, who have 3 | P a g e Created by Grace Amelia © 2025, All Rights Reserved. had similar experiences, reacted similarly to those situations. 3. imparting information - ANSWER -1. Didactic Instruction 2. Direct advice 1. didactic instruction - ANSWER -- Many group therapy approaches have made use of psychoeducation (formal instruction) as an important part of the program. - NB! Learning takes place in a group environment. - Ideal context = one of partnership and collaboration. - These groups offer clear instruction about the nature of the client's illness or life situation and examine client's misperceptions and self-defeating responses to their illness. - Group settings are the best place to teach mindfulness- and meditation-based stress reduction approaches. - The first step towards control is the explanation of a phenomenon. 2. Direct advice - ANSWER -- Direct advice from members occur in every therapy group. - In dynamic interactional therapy groups, it is invariably part of the early life of the group and occurs with such regularity that it can be used to estimate a group's age. - Advice-giving may reflect a resistance to more intimate engagement in which the group members attempt to manage relationships rather than to connect. - The process of giving advice, rather than the content of the advice, may be beneficial, implying and conveying mutual interest and caring. - Direct suggestion = the least effective form of advice. 4 | P a g e Created by Grace Amelia © 2025, All Rights Reserved. 4. Altruism - ANSWER -- Members gain through giving. - Many psychiatric patients beginning therapy are demoralised and possess a deep sense of having nothing of value to offer others. - Group therapy is the only therapy that offers clients the opportunity to benefit others. - Encourages role versatility - requiring clients to shift between roles of help receivers and help providers. 5. Corrective recapitulation of the primary family group - ANSWER -- Majority of clients who enter have a background of a highly unsatisfactory experience in their 1st and most important group primary family. - A therapy group resembles a family. - Enactment of familial patterns of interaction Family conflicts relived correctively: Re-exposure without repair worsens situations Resolving unfinished business: Unfreezing of rigid / fixed roles 6. Development of socializing techniques - ANSWER -- Social learning is the development of basic social skills. o Therapeutic factors that operate in all therapy groups. - For individuals lacking intimate relationships, the group is the f