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Yalom’s 11 therapeutic factors in group therapy

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Instillation of hope
Universality
Imparting information
Altruism
Corrective recapitulation of the family
Development of socialization skills
Imitative behavior
Interpersonal learning
Group cohesiveness
Catharsis
Existential factors
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Instillation of hope

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The therapist must “believe in themselves and in the efficacy of the group” and let this confidence show.

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Universality

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“Patients express great relief at discovering that they are not alone, that others share the same dilemmas and life experiences.”

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Imparting information

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didactic instruction (generally by the therapist) and advice (generally from the group members)

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Altruism

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Members gain through giving

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The corrective recapitulation of the primary family group

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Many clients come from a degree of dysfunction or dissatisfactory family experiences.
Familial conflicts may be relived but they must be relived “correctively.”

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Development of socializing skills

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“Social learning – the development of basic social skills – is a therapeutic factor that operates in all therapy groups, although the nature of the skills” varies, as does the process. May be implicit or explicit (for the very ill)

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Imitative behavior

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It is not uncommon for clients to “try on” bits and pieces of other people and then relinquish them as ill fitting.

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Interpersonal learning, or the group as social microcosm

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“For the longest time I believed the group was a natural place for unnatural experiences. It was only later that I realized the opposite – it is an unnatural place for natural experiences.”

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Harry Stack Sullivan’s theory

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Interpersonal theory

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Parataxic distortion

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Individuals’ proclivity to distort their perceptions of others. A parataxic distortion occurs in an interpersonal situation when one person relates to another not on the basis of the realistic attributes of the other but on the basis of a personification existing chiefly in the former’s own fantasy.