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1. Group Therapy The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the patient to
primary purpose address identified problems.
2. A technique for make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to comment
dealing with an
over talkative
client and si-
lence from oth-
er participants in
a group during
therapy
3. the technique of During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing with
"Information Giv- problems
er".
4. CBT consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream survey. The
therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to increase
the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
5. Attachment Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between humans.
A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary caregiver.
6. Mileu Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and cultural
status.
7. Complementary Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses
Alternative on mind-body interactions.
Medicine vs
Western major
difference
8. Beck
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Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept that cognitive
processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
9. depression can Beck;
be understood cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency
via schemas: toward interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views
of the future).
10. Beck assumption Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior (symptoms)
11. Ellis RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
12. ret unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The purpose of
RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active, philosophical,
confrontational therapy.
13. RET assumption People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a desire or preference into
a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based on their
beliefs).
14. Skinner operant conditioning
15. Operant condi- voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral respons-
tioning es are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more fre-
quently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative reinforcement- removal
of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
16. Skinner Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior by withholding a
reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the classroom
when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded by more
attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing
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behaviors. Behavior management and modification programs based on his prin-
ciples have shown to be successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed
learning and token economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on
learning. Behavioral methods are particularly effective with children, adolescents,
and individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
17. Universality Yaslom: The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among group mem-
bers and that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves to
remove a group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise
self-esteem.
18. Altruism Yaslom: The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experi-
ence of being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self
esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
19. Instillation of Yaslom: In a mixed group that has members at various stages of development or
hope recovery, a member can be inspired and encouraged by another member who
has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
20. Imparting infor- Yaslom: While this is not strictly speaking a psychotherapeutic process, members
mation often report that it has been very helpful to learn factual information from other
members in the group, for example, about their treatment or about access to
services.
21. Corrective reca- Yaslom: Members often unconsciously identify the group therapist and other
pitulation of pri- group members with their own parents and siblings in a process that is a form of
mary family ex- transference specific to group psychotherapy. The therapist's interpretations can
perience help group members gain understanding of the impact of childhood experiences
on their personality, and they may learn to avoid unconsciously repeating unhelp-
ful past interactive patterns in present-day relationships.
22.
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