Chapter 1 - History Flashcards
Group therapy more so used in US because…
Cheaper!
Taken from Foulkes’ position:
No such thing as an individual that exists apart from and outside the social
Groups are powerful interventions for a number of disorders including:
Depression
Anxiety
Personality Disorders
Unlike individual, group therapy offers:
Multiple relationships to assist the individual in growth and problem solving
Group therapy began in environments of:
Settlement Houses
Social action & trade unions
Later, groups became a way of:
Teaching
He led groups teaching TB patients and later other illnesses
Pratt - 1905
This man led inspirational lectures for psychiatric patients
Marsh - 1909
Eureka! This is working?! He lectured on Freudian psychology to psychotic patients - some back from war
Lazell
This era saw in interest in learning:
20s-30s
Psychodrama refers to:
Theatre of spontaneity & sociodrama
Psychodrama was founded by this man, who later coined the term….
Jacob Moreno - Group Therapy (1920’s)
In 1921 he developed collective & family therapy
Adler
He developed a group for alcoholics
Dreikurs
Dreikurs & Adler came from…
Freudian backgrounds