Chapters1-5

Question 0

Advantages of coleadership model

Answer 0

Decrease chance of burnout, less overwhelming, if one is absent the other leader will be there, co-leader peer supervision, managing counter transference, help process reactions to other leaders

Question 1

Group leader skills

Answer 1

Active listening, reflecting, clarifying, linking, suggesting, interpreting, facilitating, supporting, evaluating, empathizing, questioning, modeling, blocking,assessing, confronting, summarizing terminating

Question 2

Most disadvantages of co-leader

Answer 2

Poor selection, random assignment to another leader, failure of two leaders to meet regularly, lack of synchronization, working against common goals, fragmented

Question 3

Common mistakes often made with coleadership model

Answer 3

Not sitting across from each other, no eye contact, not communicating a plan or goal for the group, taking too much space or being too competitive, asserting power over the other, trying to be right as a leader, remaining quiet and letting the other leader take over

Question 4

Importance of having research orientation to practice

Answer 4

Allows practitioners to remain flexible and responsive to new evidence, allows to critically evaluate new developments in the field of group work, can demonstrate accountability

Question 5

Task group

Answer 5

Aims to foster accomplishing identified work goals

Question 6

Psycho educational group

Answer 6

Aims to educate well-functioning group members who want to acquire information and skills in an area of living

Question 7

Group counseling

Answer 7

Aims at preventive and educational purposes utilizes methods of interactive feedback with a here and now time framework

Question 8

Group psychotherapy

Answer 8

Aims at remediation of in-depth psychological problems often focuses on past influences of present difficulties

Question 9

Types of issues to consider- clinical issues

Answer 9

Involve using your professional judgment to act in accordance with ethical and legal mandates

Question 10

Types of issues to consider- cultural issues

Answer 10

Include a persons ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, values, or other differences that affect the way we understand and intervene with clients problems

Question 11

Informed consent

Answer 11

Provide members with adequate information that will allow them to decide if they want to join a group

Question 12

Information to give prospective members

Answer 12

Nature of the group, goals of the group, general structure of the sessions, expectations if they join, expectations of you as a leader

Question 13

Involuntary group members

Answer 13

Challenge is to demonstrate the value of a group for members, avoid assuming involuntary members don’t want to change

Question 14

Freedom to withdraw from a group

Answer 14

Procedures need to be explained during first session, members have the right to leave but important to inform both leaders and members

Question 15

Psychological risks of group participation

Answer 15

Misuse of power, pressured to disclose and violate privacy confidentiality may be broken, scapegoating may occur, confrontation in an uncaring manner, group leaders not prepared with competence to deal with difficulties that arise

Question 16

Confidentiality

Answer 16

Foundation of a working group, leaders need to define conf. Including limitations, members need to be taught what confidentiality involves, consequences, remind members in various points of conf.

Question 17

Ethical concerns in using group techniques

Answer 17

Might employ techniques unethically if use unfamiliar techniques, use of techniques to enhance power, to create intensity, to pressure members

Question 18

What three domains to combine for a powerful and comprehensive approach to counseling

Answer 18

Cognitive domain- focuses on the thinking or thought process of group members
Affective domain- emphasizes the feelings of group members
Behavioral domain- entails acting and doing

Question 19

Using group techniques effectively

Answer 19

Aimed to facilitate movement within a group, anything done by group leader can be considered a technique I.e. Being silent, offering feedback, or suggesting homework assignments, most useful when they evolve from the work of the group participants and are tailored to the situations that evolve on a particular group meeting

Question 20

In selecting techniques consider-

Answer 20

Purpose and type of work, readiness of members to confront a personal issue, members cultural background and value systems, members trust in you as a leader, level of cohesion and trust among group members

Question 21

Psychodynamic approaches-

Answer 21

Stress insight in therapy

Question 22

Experiential and relationship-oriented approaches-

Answer 22

Stress feelings and subjective experiencing

Question 23

Cognitive behavioral approaches-

Answer 23

Stress the role of thinking and doing and tend to be action oriented

Question 24

Postmodern approaches-

Answer 24

Stress understanding the subjective world of the client and tap existing resources for change within the individual

Question 25

Psychoanalytic theory

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Emphasizes insight, unconscious motivation and reconstruction of the personality ( lengthy process of analyzing inner conflicts rooted in the past)
Primary goal- making in conscience conscious and restructuring of personality

Question 26

Psychoanalytic theory techniques

Answer 26

Maintaining analytic framework, free association, interpretation, dream analysis, analysis of resistance, analysis of transference

Question 27

Adlerian therapy key concepts

Answer 27

We are social beings, we want to achieve, not viewed as being sick or needing to be cured, emphasis on family constellation

Question 28

Adlerian therapy techniques

Answer 28

Gathering life history data, interpretation, act as if, catching oneself,

Question 29

Existential approach

Answer 29

Six keys propositions

1. Capacity for self awareness
2. Take responsibility for our freedom
3. Come to know ourselves in relation to knowing and interacting with others
4. We recreate ourselves through our projects
5. Anxiety is part of the human condition
6. Death is also part of the human condition heightens our ultimate aloneness

Question 30

Person centered approach

Answer 30

Capacity to understand and resolve our problems, experiencing present moment, client/therapist relationship as necessary, used as an instrument way of being than way of doing

Question 31

Person centered therapy techniques

Answer 31

Relationship, bringing here and now, blend concepts from other approaches

Question 32

Gestalt therapy

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Here and now, direct experiencing, awareness, quality of the relationship, think more of experiments than techniques- empty chair, role plays, reliving a painful event ( concentrates on feelings thoughts body sensations)

Question 33

Psychodrama

Answer 33

Explore problems through role playing, enacting situations using various dramatic devices to gain insight, discover creativity and develop behavioral skills ( can act past present future situations) explore feelings, achieve emotional release develop new ways of coping * techniques storytelling manner, role reversal, future projection