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Group Counseling and Group Work (2/2) Flashcards

Counseling Theory applied to group work

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Newer trends and approaches are also important:

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family groups
brief and narrative therapy groups
groups working from a feminist therapy perspective

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Person-Centered Group

Content

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  • feelings
  • personal meanings
  • attitudes
  • sense of trust in group
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Person-Centered Group

Leader

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  • group member centered and process oriented
  • leader creates climate, conveys acceptance, facilitates, links
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Person-Centered Group

Techniques

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  • active listening/reflection
  • support and “being there”
  • altering self-concepts
  • few structured techinques
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Person-Centered Group

Focus

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insight and affect oriented

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Gestalt Group

Focus

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action/insight and affect oriented

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Gestalt Group

Goal

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  • awareness
  • experience in the moment
  • personality change
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Person-Centered Group

Goal

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  • encourage openness
  • explore full range of feelings
  • increasing self-understanding
  • develop openness, honesty, spontaneity
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Person-Centered Group

Multicultural

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  • respects cultural values
  • encourages active listening
  • members may not like the ‘lack of direction’
  • may want more structure/more directive problem-solving approach
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Gestalt Group

Techniques

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  • focus on the here and now
  • experiential
  • use of exercises including confrontation, empty chair, guided fantasy
  • catharsis
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Gestalt Group

Content

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  • clients have responsibility for moment-to-moment experiencing and awareness
  • deal with unfinished business
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Gestalt Group

Leader

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  • group member centered and process oriented
  • leader brings structure to group
  • serves as catalyst for change
  • encourages working through unfinished business
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Transactional Analysis Group

Focus

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a combination of insight/action and rational/affect oriented

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Transactional Analysis Group

Goal

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  • awareness
  • making new decisions
  • become free of scripts and games
  • altering course of life
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Transactional Analysis Group

Techniques

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  • interacting with others
  • making contracts
  • use of script-analysis checklist
  • teaching/learning
  • role-playing
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Gestalt Group

Multicultural

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  • different techniques can be addapted to different clients
  • focus may be on nonverbals and what they mean
  • many clients are less apt to respond with intense feelings and be less willing to participate in some techniques
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Transactional Analysis Group

Content

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  • life script
  • three dynamic ego states - parent, adult, child
  • games people play
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Transactional Analysis Group

Leader

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  • leader is teacher adn diagnostician
  • group is leader-centered with equal process and outcome orientation
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Transactional Analysis Group

Multicultural

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  • clients like the structure
  • the contracts they design can account for cultural values
  • clients may have difficulty understanding some TA concepts and processes
  • narrow interpretation of human nature
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Cognitive Behavior Group

Goal

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eliminate problem behaviors and teach self-management skills

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Cognitive Behavior Group

Techniques

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  • examine the learning process nad find ways fo changing/learning behaviors, cognitions, emotions
  • use of reinforcement/contracts
  • modeling
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Cognitive Behavior Group

Content

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target behavior, environmental circumstances maintaining the behavior, environmental changes/intervention strategies that can change the behavior

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Cognitive Behavior Group

Focus

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action and rational oriented

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Cognitive Behavior Group

Leader

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  • leader centered and action oriented (teacher, expert)
  • teaches coping skills and methods of modifying behavior
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Cognitive Behavior Group

Multicultural

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  • behavioral groups de-empathsize focus on feelings
  • often short-term and structured; work toward specific goals
  • learn new coping strategies
  • may learn new behaviors they will have to integrate with family and cultural values as well as with historical/systemic factors
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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Goal

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  • constructive changes in client’s thinking and behavior leading to greater acceptance of self
  • move past self-defeating behaviors
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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Techniques

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  • learning A-B-C theory
  • practicing disputing
  • exercising self-discipline
  • role-playing
  • homework assignments
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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Content

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irrational beliefs and values and consequent problem behaviors

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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Focus

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action/insight and rational oriented

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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Leader

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  • centered and both process/outcome oriented
  • confronts illogical thinking
  • serves as model for others
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Rational Emotive Behavior Group

Multicultural

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  • counselor would be viewed as a teacher vs a therapist and teaches clients to cope better with life = eliminate self-defeating behvaiors
  • many clients will value expert role and leader directedness
  • REBT may be too directive/forceful for some clients and the highly active role of the leader could create dependence
  • what leader views as irrational behavior may not be
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Reality Group

Goal

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  • improve quality of life by achieving increasing control over life
  • taking responsibility
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Reality Group

Techniques

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  • confront and encourage honest self-examination
  • evaluate behavior
  • formulate plan for change (contract)
  • commit to such a plan and follow through
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Reality Group

Content

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  • members’ awareness and present behavior
  • wants and needs
  • responsibility
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Reality Group

Focus

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rational and action oriented

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Reality Group

Leader

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  • centered and outcome oriented
  • assist members make choices, formulate, implement a plan
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Reality Group

Multicultural

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  • group work takes on a teaching/learning approach often resulting with contracts by group members
  • contracts can be consistent with their own identity and cultural values
  • no strong emphasis on feelings
  • members may feel leaders do not understand strong influence of discrimination and other socio-historical factors
  • cultural emphasis may be to work for the community good and not just for individual
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Adlerian Group

Techniques

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  • psychoeducational
  • analysis and assessment
  • explore family constellation
  • cognitive restructuring
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Adlerian Group

Goal

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  • explore basic life assumptions
  • understand lifestyles
  • recognize strengths and accept responsibility
  • increase self-esteem
  • develop social interest
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Adlerian Group

Content

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  • cognitive, behavioral, affective sides of human nature
  • early history
  • lifestyles
  • belief system
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Adlerian Group

Focus

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  • action oriented
  • goal directed
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Adlerian Group

Leader

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  • leader centered
  • challenges beliefs and goals
  • models
  • encourages members to action
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Adlerian Group

Multicultural

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  • members can view culture from own unique perspective and background
  • can create own meaning from own personal experiences
  • may be reluctant to share family background details in the group
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Existential Group

Goal

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  • self-awareness
  • help members use freedom amd assume responsibility
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Existential Group

Technique

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  • members determine issues to explore
  • self-disclosure of group leader
  • counseling
  • psychoeducation
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Existential Group

Content

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  • search for meaning
  • dealing with freedom/anxiety/guilt
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Existential Group

Focus

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insight oriented

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Existential Group

Leader

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  • active and reflective
  • builds relationshipswiht members
  • confronts members in a caring way
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Existential Group

Multicultural

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  • encourages understanding clients in their own cultural and phenomenological world
  • encourages empowerment
  • explores values/lifestyle
  • emphasis on individual may conflict with culture’s focus on collectivism
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Adlerian Influences

Adlerian theory mantains

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belief in strong social nature of people
- focus is on the individual in the group (individual psychology)

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Adlerian Influences

Adlerian Theory

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  • holistic view of the person with more emphasis on interpersonal than intrapersonal factors
  • role of family is critical. The meaning clients give to their position in the family, sibling relationships, birth order is important
  • individual’s orientation to life and its themes called Lifestyle are addressed
  • has been successfully implemented into family counseling
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Remote telemental group work

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both possible and positive
- travel, weather, transportation become non issues

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