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4 levels of insight
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1. objective
2. patterns of bx 3. motivational insight 4. genetic insight |
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Group cohesiveness is the same thing as
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therapeutic relationship, there's just more people doing it
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Yalom believes people seeking assistance from a mental health professional have in common two difficulties
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1. establishing and maintaining meaningful personal relationships
2. maintaining a sense of personal worth (self-esteem) |
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3 variables correlated with popularity in group
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1. previous self-disclosure
2. interpersonal compatibility 3. other sociometric measures (i.e.young, good looking, educated) |
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Group cohesiveness increases
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group attendance
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members of a cohesive group will (8 actions)
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1. influence more
2. be influenced more 3. self-disclose more 4. listen more 5. participate more 6. protect group norms 7. be less suseptible to disruption 8. have greater ownership |
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Horizontal therapy is
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here and now and future (Rogers)
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Vertical therapy is
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trying to find out how you got here (Freud, Jung)
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As per group member feedback, what therapist behavior is the least helpful?
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Imitative bx
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Family reenactment is
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the corrective recapitulation of the primary family experience
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Nothing take precedence over
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the theraputic relationship or group cohesiveness
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The therapist attends to gatekeeping, which is
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prevention of member attrition
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Culture building
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therapist funtions indirectly to create a culture where everyone shares
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Two basic roles the therapist may assume in the group
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1. technical expert
2. model-setting participant |
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Examples of group norms (6)
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1. self-monitoring group
2. self-disclosure 3. Procedure 4. The importance of group to its members 5. members as agents of help 6. support and confrontation |
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The major difference between a psychotheapy group and others...
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The here and now focus
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The here and now focus is not just an orientation...
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it is indispensable
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Everything that Yalom does is to...
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bring people back into a here and now focus
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Two types of countertranference and their meanings
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Objective countertransference: reflecting on the client's characteristic interpersonal impact on you and others
Subjective countertransference: idiosyncratic reactions that reflect more specifically on what you personally carry into the relationship |
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Techniques of process illumination
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1. ct recognizes their own interpersonal habits
2. ct appreciates the impact of this bx on others, other's opinions of them, and their own self-regard 3. ct decides if they are satisfied with their habitual interpersonal style 4. ct transforms intent into decision, decision into action 5. ct solidifies the change and transfers it into larger life |
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There are times when the therapist must sit on...
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his wisdom and wait for the group arrive to solutions
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Example of process comment
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"What's happened in the group now is that you've distanced yourself."
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One formidable problem with explanations based on the distant past is...
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they have within them the seeds of therapeutic despair
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The past no more determines the present and the future than...
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is determined by them.
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An issue critical to the existence or function of the entire group always takes precedence over...
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narrower interpersonal issues
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Most important type of interpretation
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mutative interpretation: clarifying aspects of transference
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Main theraputic task of therapist
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analysis of transference
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What occurs in every group?
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tranference
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Transference is so powerful that no therapist shall have...
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favorites to keep stability in the group.
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Principles for the therapist when recieveing feedback from the group (3)
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1. take is seriously
2. obtain consensual validation 3. check your own internal experience |
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Ideal group size
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8
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Most important factor to Yalom when picking group members
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motivation
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Who profits less from the group experience
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those who are most satisfied with themselves
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9 reasons for drop outs
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1. external factors
2. group deviancy 3. problems of intimacy 4. fear of emotional contagion 5. inability to share the therapist 6. complications of concurrent individual and group therapy 7. early provocateurs 8. inadequate orientation to therapy 9. complications arising from subgrouping |
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Frans Alexander
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Corrective emotional experience
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Maxwell Jones
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emphasized nervious system's effect on mental health
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L. Marsh
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psychoeducation and organized classes with lectures, homework, and grades
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Abraham Low
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Founded Recovery, Inc - the nations oldest and largest self-help program for current and former psychiatric patients.
Wrote textbook: "Mental Health Through Will Training" |
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Foulkes and Anthony
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Suggest blending diagnoses and disturbances to form a therapeutically efffective group.
Also said, "There are times when the therapist must sit on his wisdom, must tolerate defective knowledge and wait for the group to arrive at solutions." |
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Albert Bandura
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emphasized imitation and modeling
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H. Sullivan
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consensual validation
"parataxic distortions" |
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Carl Rogers
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actualization tendency
Horizontal and upward therapy |
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H. Strupp
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"time limited psychotherapy”
integration of classical and interpersonal psychoanalysis analysis of transference |
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Main goal of Dynamic Therapy
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relief of suffering
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Mindfulness
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awarness of self, minus evaluation of self
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universality
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clinical empathy - helping the ct to know they are not alone in their experience
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altruism
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caring about others
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11 Therapeutic Factors
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1. instillation of hope
2. universality 3. imparting information 4. altruism 5. corrective recapitulaion of the primary family group 6. development of socializing techniques 7. imitative behavior 8. interpersonal learning 9. group cohesiveness 10. catharsis 11. existential factors |
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The therapist translates depression into its interpersonal issue, like...
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passive dependency, isolation, obsequiousness (excessive obedience), inability to express anger, hypersensistivety to separation
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One good friend can...
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inoculate suicide or depression
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Sequence of microcausm #11
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adaptive spiral set in motion, first inside the group, then outside
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S. Freud
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catharsis is not enough.
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2 therapists, 4 girls, 2 guys
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Irv, Joan are co-therapists
Ladies: Alice, Cathy, Darlene, Betty Men: Bob, Allen, Dan |