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Group Leadership AODS/PSY/SOC 250
Cards created from the highlited section of the notes given in Marsha Mathews AODS/PSY/SOC 250 course at Palomar College
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/17/2009

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Goal of Psychoanalytic Groups
Definition
Restructuring of one's personality
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Psychoanalytic Group
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Insight and the process of "working through" are considered necessary before leaving the group this type of group
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Insight (psychoanalytic)
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Awareness of the cause of one's present difficulties
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Psychoanalytic
Definition
The final stage of the ___ group consist of working through that result in increased consciousness and integration of self
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Psychoanalytic
Definition
___ view of the past: Present events are the focus, yet they are connected with the past by asking the client to relate present feelings with past ones
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Psychonalytic
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The unconciousness in ____ theory:
powerful impact on our daily functioning
Consciousness is only a small part of the human experience Most human bx is motivated by forces outside of conscious experience. Painful childhood experience is buried in unconscious
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Free association and the unconscious
Definition
communicating whatever comes to mind regardless of how it may seem irrelevant
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Psychoanalytic group leader role
Definition
Pointing out resistance
Asking questions
Making interpretations
Encouraging members to interact with one another
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Brief psychodynamic therapy - therapist role
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Taking an active role and quickly formulating thereaputic goals that go beyond the surface of the presenting problem.
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Psychoanalytic group advantages
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Multiple transferences are formed
Groups becomes a family of yesterday
members benefit from each others work
members learn to identify their own transferences
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Psychodynamic future trends
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treatment of personality disorders, as borderline or narcissitic.
Establishment of a good therepeutic alliance early in treatment
Renewed interest in briefer forms of treatment
Time limited groups
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Difference between Adler and Freud
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Adler was socially oriented who was concerned with the common person, Freud individual neurotic affluent clients.
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Adlerian view of the person
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Social as opposed to biological determinates of bx
motivation: social forces
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Adlerian view of inferiority
Definition
wellsprings of creativity, lead to development of unique lifestyle, lead us to strive for mastery and perfection, results in attempts to compensate by use of control.
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Adlerian group work on inferiority
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Group members may be asked to explore feelings of inferiority, their experience within the group itself, assumptions of personal worth based on life experiences and failures
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Adlerian stage 1
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Thereaputic relationship, cooperation and mutual respect. The relationship is one between equals. Primary role of the group counselor is to challenge the beliefs and goals of the members.
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The Question
Definition
(Adlerian). How would your life be different if you didn't have the symptoms (or problems or illness). Clients response determines whether an illness is due to organic or psychological factors.
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Adlerian Stage 2
Definition
Anaylsis and assesment. Understanding lifestyle and how it is affecting current functioning. Group interaction are determinates of lifestyle and goals. Relies heavily on constellation, birth order, and early recollections. Anaylsis and assesment are ways of exploring an individuals dynamics.
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Adlerian Stage 3
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Group members become aware of their part in creating a problem and how they are maintaining the problem.
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Insight (Adlerian)
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Understanding translated into constructive action. It is a step toward the change and a means towed the end of a change. People can change without insight.
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Adlerian Stage 4
Definition
Reeducation
Challenging erroneous beliefs: self, life, others.
Learning alternative beliefs, bx, attitudes.
"Encouragement":building of courage
Acting as if
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Adlerian Holism
Definition
Thoughts, feelings, bx, beliefs, traits and characteristics, conviction, attitudes: uniqueness of the individual.
Whole person
Behavior is inherently social, therefore need for understanding of bx whithin the social context.
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Reality therapy
Definition
In ___ therapy group members identify their needs and wants, assess the direction of their behavior, and make plans for change. transference is not a significant factor in group work.
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Key concepts of Reality Therapy
Definition
Existential/phenomenological approach, choice theory, focus on the present, total behavior.
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Choice Theory
Definition
The theory underlying the practice of reality therapy. The only person whose behavior we can control is our own.
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What are you doing?
Definition
Contemperary Reality theory best captured by this question ___ ?
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Functions of the Reality Group leader
Definition
Setting limits in group
getting members to evaluate their behavior
being willing to have his or her own values challenged
exploring or clarifying values
Emphasis focusing on actions and thoughts
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The procedure that lead to change in Reality Therapy
Definition
WDEP system. Wants, Doing-Direction, self-Evaluation, Planning.
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Reality Therapy view on self evaluation
Definition
members are expected to evaluate the quality of their actions and decide if they want to change.
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REBT belongs to which category of theories?
Definition
cognitive behavioral. REBT employs Cognitive and behavioral methods to help members resolve their problems.
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According to REBT, why do people develop psychological disturbances?
Definition
Due to their beliefs about certain events
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According to REBT how will change come about?
Definition
Through a commitment to consistently practice new behaviors that challenge old and ineffective ones.
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Beginning of an REBT group
Definition
By teaching members the basics of the ABC theory. REBT leaders are interested in showing members how they have created their own misery.
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Rational Emotive Imagery
Definition
REBT group practitioners may ask group members to imagine the worst thing they can think of that could happen to them and then train themselves to develop appropriate emotions in place of the disruptive ones.
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REBT skills and techniques
Definition
Cognitive homework
Shame attacking excersizes
use of humour
psyhoeducational methods in wokring with group members
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REBT role playing
Definition
involves a cognitive-emotive evaluation of feelings and beliefs.
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Cognitive Behavioral
Definition
GroupIn the initial stages of the ___ group: Members would be given information on how a group functions, and a treatment contract would be developed. The leader must strive to make the group attractive to members.
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Cognitive behavioral
Definition
In the working phase of the __ groups reinforcement, behavioral rehearsal, congnitive restructuring, and the buddy system are used.
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Transactional Analysis
Definition
An advantage of using __ therapy is in the use of contracts, members become empowered.
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Transactional Analysis
Definition
__ can be used with techniques from Gestalt and behavioral techniques.
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The Gouldings, Transactional Analysis.
Definition
Core of the __ approach was to help clients make redecisions while they are in their child ego states, part of __ theory.
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Eric Berne
Definition
__ pioneer of Transactional Analysis
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Rackets
Definition
a familiar emotion, learned and encouraged in childhood and experienced in many different stress situations, and a collection of bad feelings that people use to justify their life scripts are known as ___
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Games
Definition
A __ is an ongoing series of transactions that end in a negative payoff called for by the script and advances some way of feeling badly.
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Adult Ego state
Definition
In Transactional analysis, the __ ego state is the data processor.
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Group
Definition
Transactional Analysis is best suited for __ work.
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Awareness
Definition
In Gestalt __ is best described as recognitio of current feelings, thoughts, actions and sensations.
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Unfinished business
Definition
___ is related to feelings of resentment and guilt and issues from the past that interfere with the present functioning.
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Field theory
Definition
Everything is relational
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Figure-formation process
Definition
Background, or environemtn become focal point moment to moment
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Figure-formation process
Definition
Background, or environment become focal point moment to moment
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Gestalt leader role
Definition
Suggest expirement that will lead to increased awareness and to heightening of experiencing.
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Gestalt leader relationship
Definition
__ leader pays attention to whatever seems to be emerging in moment-to-moment experiencing.
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Gestalt
Definition
In __ groups the past is brought into the present moment by asking the members to re-experience a past issue as though it were occuring now.
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Gestalt
Definition
in the __ approach to dreams, memebers are asked to discover the meaning a dream has for them.
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test
Definition
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