Midterm Deck

Question 1

Group Qualities

Answer 1

Intensive, heterogeneous, outpatient, several months long

Question 2

Goals of a group

Answer 2

Symptom Relief and Personality Change

Question 3

Anxiety versus depression

Answer 3

Anxiety is about the future, depression is about the past

Question 4

Installation of Hope

Answer 4

Belief, confidence, efficacy, faith, placebo. 30% of ssri benefit is placebo.

Question 5

Universality

Answer 5

You are not alone or unique in wretchedness. Removes isolation and aloneness.

Question 6

Imparts information

Answer 6

Didactic Instruction versus Direct advice.

Question 7

Altruism

Answer 7

Confronts morbid self absorbption. Giving something to somebody <b>without expecting something in return</b>. I have something of value to offer

Question 8

Corrective Recapitulation of the Primary Family Group

Answer 8

Experience family or person all over again. Reform the prior dynamic and what we do about it. PARATAXIC DISTORTIONS. Experienced CORRECTIVE, RECAPITULATION, PRIMARY

Question 9

Development of socializing techniques

Answer 9

Basic social skills. We get to see ourselves in the eyes of other people. Provides CONSENSUAL VALIDATION. First honest feedback. Learn the 3 skills.

Question 10

Imitative behavior

Answer 10

VICARIOUS or SPECTATOR therapy. Understand self more. UNFREEZE ENOUGH TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW BEHAVIOR.We are gregarious animals with an innate propensity to be noticed and noticed favorably.

Question 11

Interpersonal Learning

Answer 11

NEVER BELIEVE INDIFFERENCE. Becomes a SOCIAL MICROCOSM. Shows INTERPERSONAL DEFICITS. Above/below/beside assessment. We are gregarious animals with an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed and noticed favorably.

Question 12

CAGE

Answer 12

Concern, Acceptance, Genuineness and Empathy

Question 13

Harry Stack Sullivan

Answer 13

Parataxic Distortions versus Transference

Question 14

Parataxic Distortions

Answer 14

An individual’s proclivity to distort their perceptions of others. How I think about you and how I respond are both in my head.

Question 15

Lonliness

Answer 15

Inherent in privilege and in being a group leader

Question 16

Consensual Validation

Answer 16

The benefit of group versus individual therapy – lots of people tell you what they thin about you

Question 17

Group Cohesiveness

Answer 17

More leads to more positive outcomes. So important. How well do I think about my group and the other members of my group. Attractiveness of members for the group and other members in the group.

Question 18

Catharsis

Answer 18

CLEANSING or UNDROWNING yourself by expressing feelings and learning from the experience of those feelings. CATHARSIS ALONE IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

Question 19

Corrective Emotional Experience

Answer 19

(Franz Alexander) Intellectual insight is not enough; it must be combined with emotional component and systematic reality testing. Must think, feel and use action to test the new insight.

Question 20

Therapeutic Stance

Answer 20

CAGE: Concern, Acceptance, Genuineness, Empathy

Question 21

Basic Therapist tasks

Answer 21

CAGE, Create and maintain the group, culture building including the norms (esp 1st day). (also, Be Observer-participant and group historian)

Question 22

Working in the here and now

Answer 22

Be ahistoric (precedence over then and there.) Illumination of process.

Question 23

Process work

Answer 23

What’s going on between members, examining our own transactions. Self-reflective loop

Question 24

Disadvantages of self-disclosure

Answer 24

Losing authority, group shifts to care for therapist

Question 25

2 Basic Jobs

Answer 25

Realistic and positive sense of self, and Connect with others

Question 26

3 Skills

Answer 26

Speak up (“I”)/Leader. Listen (“You”)/Follower. Cooperate (“We”)/Negotiate win-win

Question 27

Modulation

Answer 27

Varying how open you are with different people.

Question 28

Components of corrective emotional experience

Answer 28

Expression (strong), Supportive (group), Reality testing, Inappropriateness recognition, Facilitation ultimately. (eating sardines really irritates ferrets)

Question 29

Existential Factors

Answer 29

CORE MEANINGS OF LIFE. We all face life ALONE. Face basic issues so we life more honestly. TAKE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY.

Question 30

Quote re training

Answer 30

The development of the ability to (1) identify and (2) put to therapeutic advantage maladaptive interpersonal behavior as seen in the social microcosm of the small group is one of the chief tasks of a training program for group psychotherapists

Question 31

Quote re power.

Answer 31

To the degree that the therapy group focuses on the here and now, it increases in power and effectiveness.

Question 32

The group leader’s job.

Answer 32

It is the therapist’s job to keep directing the group toward the self-reflective loop. (SRT). Metacommunication. Transactional Analysis (80s)

Question 33

Most important thing quote

Answer 33

Underlying all considerations of technique there must be a consistent positive relationship between T and P

Question 34

Sense of self

Answer 34

No, low, poor, inflated