Group Therapy, Feminist Therapy, Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Question 1

Cl-6
Stages in Group Therapy (Yalom)

Answer 1

Found in book by Irvin Yalom

First stage: orientation, hesitant participation, search for meaning, and dependency (talk only to group leader and not members)

Second stage: Conflict, Dominance, Rebellion (establishing power and hierarchy)

Third stage: Group cohesiveness

Question 2

Cl-6
Therapist’s Role

Answer 2

1) creation and maintenance of the group

2) culture building

3) Activation and process illumination of the Here and Now

Question 3

Cl-6
Concurrent Group and Individual Therapy

Answer 3

Not necessary or helpful unless individual is experiencing a crisis themselves that will help them not leave the group

Question 4

Cl-6
A good candidate for group therapy

Answer 4

When persons problems are related to interpersonal issues like shyness, inability to be intimate, motivation to change, positive view on group therapy

Question 5

Cl-6
Feminist Therapy

Answer 5

• emphasis on power difference between men and women
• intrapsychic events always occur and must be interpreted within an oppressive social context
• Maladaptive behaviour: personal is political and related to feminine roles or conflicts

Question 6

Cl-6
Feminist therapy goals and techniques

Answer 6

Goals are to identify and alter the oppressive forces in society that have affected their lives and EMPOWERMENT

Techniques are striving for an Egalitarian relationship - power “with” not “over”, avoiding labels, avoiding revictimization and political activism

Question 7

Cl-6
Self-in-relation theory

Answer 7

Extends object relations theory and combined feminist theory by saying many gender differences can be traced to differences in the mother-daughter and mother-son bond

Question 8

Cl-6
Community Psychology

Answer 8

Public health, prevention of disease, prevention over treatment

Types of prevention include:

1)primary (reducing mental and physical disorders by decreasing incidence of new cases)
2) secondary (reducing duration through screening / early detection)
3) Tertiary (rehab programs and education)

Question 9

Cl-6
Consultation

Answer 9

A process in which human services professional assists a consultee with a work related problem with a client system, with the goal of helping both the client and the consultee

Question 10

Cl-6
Types of consultation

Answer 10

Organizational
Advocacy

Question 11

Cl-6
4 stages of consultation

Answer 11

1) Entry (identifying needs and contract)
2)Diagnosis (defining the problem, setting goals and generating possible intervention)
3) Implementation (choose intervention and implement a plan)
4)disengagement (evaluating consultation, reducing involvement and termination)

Question 12

Cl-6
Mental Health Consultation

Answer 12

From the medical/psychiatric model and involves the consultant, consultee and the client

Question 13

Cl-6
4 types of mental health consultation

Answer 13

Client-Centered case
Consultee-centered case
Program-centered administrative
Consultee-centered administrative

Question 14

Cl-7
Interventions for older adults

Answer 14

most common mental health problems among adults are anxiety, severe cog impairment and depression

many interventions show success to a similar level to young people but older adults respond more slowly

Question 15

Cl-7
Interventions for Battered Women

Answer 15

• self-determination, esteem and empowerment

Question 16

Cl-7
Issues in Psychotherapy Research

Answer 16

1) Treatment manuals
2) Placebo
3) Diagnostic overshadowing - attribute a person’s problems/symptoms to their intellectual disabilities
4) Alloplastic vs Autoplastic - allo is changes to environment (aloe vera grows in environment) and auto is changes to the person
5) Therapist distress - suicidal statements, lack of success, issues to confidentiality
6) Psychiatric hospitalization - most common is those never married, white, 25-44, Schizo

Question 17

Cl-8
Indigenous Healing

Answer 17

Rely on community and family networks to care for disturbed individual, religious and spiritual practices, healing process done by healer

Curanderismo - illness can arise from natural or supernatural forces

Hooponopono - hawaiian spiritual healing to resolve family conflict

Sweat lodge ceremony - sit in circle around pit of heated stones

Question 18

Cl-8
Cultural Encapsulation

Answer 18

Therapists exhibit this when they define everyones reality according to their own assumptions, disregard cultural differences, ignore evidence that disconfirms their beliefs, rely on strategies to solve problems, disregard their own biases

Question 19

Emic versus Etic orientation

Answer 19

Emic = culture specific theories
Etic = universal orientation (view ppl from difference cultures as the same)