Yalom Final Flashcards
Dont Fail!
Brief Groups
Focus on here and now duration less than 20-25 strive for efficiancy achievable goal homo for problem "shortest lifespan to achieve a goal"
Combined therapy
tx in both individual and group therapy
Conjoint therapy
Tx by different providers in group and individual
Yalom makes clear that he thinks individ usually refer to him for fail to prod effect of too much transference
Concurrect therapy
Therapies occurring at the same time
Transference
this is a view that is misplaced by the client either onto the therapist or onto another grp member
- occurs in groups
- be flexible
- attitudes toward you are not always transference
- some clients need to work out transference issues
Therapist Transparensy
confirm or disconfirm impressions of the members
deepens respect and understanding
insight
writings back and forth
Group size
5-10 yalom
Marathon Group
met for prolonged sessions 24-48 hours often with no time permitted for sleep
Group Frequency
1-5 times per week, typically once
Hidden Agenda
Fulfilling expectations about others
T-group
training
Boredom
Inversely related to experience
Least Effective advise
Direct Suggestion
Self DIsclosure
the amount that is shared in group
- by therapist can increase sharing but should be judicious
- if unwilling to share bad indicator for success
Support Groups
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Self Help
20 mill in past year and 50 mill overall
-The self-help group makes extensive use of almost all the therapeutic factors—especially altruism, cohesiveness, universality, imitative behavior, instillation of hope, and catharsis. But there is one important exception: the therapeutic factor of interpersonal learning plays a far less important role in the self-help group than in the therapy group.
Theraputic Factors
therapeutic factors—especially altruism, cohesiveness, universality, imitative behavior, instillation of hope, and catharsis interpersonal learning
Outpatient Groups
Demands less activity than inpatient and may have more dropouts
Inpatient Groups
provide discrete location for therapy therefore intensifying effect
Process focus
the power cell of the event type groups, wether encounter or what that makes them have impact.
-therapeutic factors—especially altruism, cohesiveness, universality, imitative behavior, instillation of hope, and catharsis.
Theraputic norms
support and confrontation, self-disclosure, self-monitoring, interaction, spontaneity, the importance of the group members as the agents of help.