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A: Altruism – The feeling that the member is helping others and is important in their lives.
Catharsis – Expressing negative and positive feelings towards other group members and the group leader.
Existential Factors – Individuals learn there are limits in the world and that they alone are responsible for their own life.
Group Cohesiveness – Emotional sharing and acceptance. A feeling of belonging and approval, with a feeling of warmth and closeness.
Guidance – The Imparting of information. (early stages of group) Identification-Individuals learn by vicariously watching others in group.
Instillation of Hope –Seeing others getting better, knowing that the group has helped others gives members faith in the treatment mode.
Interpersonal Input – Seeing how one relates to others and how others relate to oneself and then working on achieving more satisfying interpersonal relationships.
Interpersonal Output – Patients express feelings openly and the group is supportive.
Insight – Patients gain a more objective perspective regarding interpersonal behavior. Patients gain some understanding what they are doing to and with other people. There is an understanding as to why.
Recapitulation of the primary family – The group resembles the family in many aspects. Unresolved family issues are recapitulated and corrected.
Universality – Feeling that one is not different than others. “we are all in the same boat.” |
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| Give Examples of why curative factors hold more values than others. |
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| -Depending on the population you are working with in your groups creates more value for each curative factor. For example psychiatric inpatient clients will hold one curative factor higher than a CD patient would due to the nature of the treatment. For example Instillation of hope is highly ranked in alcoholics in an outpatient setting as to where psychiatric outpatient clients rank interpersonal input as being the most important. CD patients need that hope and group cohesion to maintain as to where the psychiatric patient has other needs. Same goes for level of care and inpatient CD group may hold another curative factor to be more important due to their setting or environment. |
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| What is a group Leader? (qualities of a group leader) |
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Reliability
Sontaneity and responsiveness
Trust
Firm Identity
Humor and creativity
Flexibility
Fallibility |
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What are 2 characteristics that are important in group?
(Refer to Curative Factors) |
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Universality - we are all in the same boat
Instillation of Hope – Seeing others getting better. Knowing the group has helped others gives the group faith in the treatment mode. |
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1. Honesty – spontaneity encouraged – Santioned
2. High level of group involvment assured with all members
3. Self disclosure established – “Reciprocal vulnerability”
4. A desire for self understanding instilled and encouraged.
5. Non Judgemental acceptance for all
6. Dissatifaction with self must be experienced (change occurs form them.
Group Leaders must establish / reinforce norms that are healthy and extinguish unhealthy norms. Therapist builds atmosphere and climate for change to occur. |
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| What are 2 forms of resistance in group? |
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Resistance to intimacy – going into vulnerable feeling may create a resistance in the individual that is the focus of the group or possibly the group as a whole. Addicts generally struggle with vulnerable feelings.
Fear of abandonment and vulnerability. |
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| What are 2 things people can do to resist group? |
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Definition
| Silence, Anger, Excessive intellectualization, Compliance, indifference or boredom. |
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| What are 2 things you can do to neutralize resistance? |
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| Utilizing the group as a source of creating neutrality. Getting the group on the group leaders view and reinforcing to the individual. You can also utilize the individual struggling with resistance by pointing out the inconsistencies that they are displaying. You can also utilize yourself as the group leader to remove resistance in the group setting. Taking a look at yourself and admitting fallibility. You must also stay concrete in the group process so you must learn to balance concreteness but still be able to neutralize resistance. |
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| Describe what an object is and give an example. |
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Definition
Objects are things outside of self from the past that represent something else.
IE: if someone sounds like a police officer although they are not you will relate them to a police officer and react to them the same way you would to a police officer. |
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| What 2 curative factors are most important in CD treatment? |
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Universality - We are all in the same boat. we are not terminally unique and understand where the other is coming from and provide empathy
Altruism – The feeling that the member is helping others and is important in their lives. Patients forget themselves momentarily, at least, and focus on helping others. People need to feel they are needed. Group Cohesiveness – Emotional sharing and acceptance. A feeling of belonging and approval, with a feeling of warmth and closeness. There is a mutual support and a higher self esteem. A sense of “We-ness” is established. This is a precondition for effective treatment. |
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| Identifying Transference – |
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Definition
Transference Requires 2 characteristics
-Repetition of the past
-Inappropriate to the present.
Tranference makes others appear as they are not and allows the therapist to get glips of the past.
Requires Accuracy and timing and transference happens very quickly.
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| The group is the symbolic mother |
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Definition
-Leader transferency / authority
-Peer competition, jelousy
-Group as a whole (represents good or bad mother)
Interpretation requires timing and accuracy. For modification also consentual validation. |
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| What are the 6 categories for positive treatment out come? Identify them and identify which one is most important. |
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Definition
1. Honesty – spontaneity encouraged – Santioned
2. High level of group involvment assured with all members
3. Self disclosure established – “Reciprocal vulnerability”
4. A desire for self understanding instilled and encouraged.
5. Non Judgemental acceptance for all
6. Dissatifaction with self must be experienced (change occurs form them.
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| What is projection Identification |
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| Projective identification is a psychological process by which a person projects his or her own thoughts and beliefs onto a third party. Often thought to be a defense mechanism, projective identification is generally associated with negative thoughts and actions that an individual considers unacceptable. |
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