Goals
Preventative and remedial aims, generally a specific focus, which may be educational, career, social or personal. It emphasis interpersonal communication and conscious thoughts, feelings, and behavior within a here-and-now time frame.
What is group counseling?
Transference and countertransference are central to understanding this theory.
What is psychodynamic?
This theoretical framework asks group members to assume increasing responsibility, make interpretations, and explore material from the unconscious.
What is psychoanalytic?
Empty chair, game of dialogue, fantasy approaches, rehearsal techniques, exaggerating a behavior, staying with feelings, dialogues with self or significant others in the present, and dream work are examples related to this theory.
What are gestalt techniques?
This theorists unstructured approach will turn off client's who are looking for a more directive approach.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This type of therapy brings members into the present; can be done with the use of mindfulness.
What is gestalt?
With this theory, the leader focuses on helping you secure your five basic needs.
What is choice theory?
From the continuum of highly directive to nondirective this is where CBT lands.
What is highly directive?
Self-presentation, presentation of the other, interview in the role of the other and interview in the role of the other interview in the role of the self, soliloquy, role reversal, double technique and auxiliary egos, mirroring and future projection are techniques related to this theory.
What are psychodrama techniques?
Members who come from a collectivist culture will have challenges with this theoretical approach.
What is Existentialism?
This group focuses on re experiencing early relationships to uncover repressed feelings.
What is psycho-analytic?
The leader helps the group members bring awareness to their feelings in the here and now.
What is Gestalt theory?
This theory relies on the themes of freedom responsibility, anxiety and guilt to structure the session.
What is Existentialism?
There are no specific methods, leaders can borrow from other therapies to better understand the world of their client. The focus needs to the on the “subjective understanding of a member’s world."
What are existential techniques?
This theory will alienate client's whose culture frowns upon sharing feelings.
What is Gestalt?
This group focuses on evaluating dysfunctional thinking.
What is CBT?
The leader will create a setting where group members experience genuineness, acceptance, and accurate empathy.
What is person-centered theory?
These theoretical approaches ask members to observe their daily successes and pay attention to the end goal rather than the obstacle.
What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Motivational Interviewing?
Raising questions, asking clients to look for exceptions to the problem, the miracle question, scaling questions, focusing on strengths, use of metaphors, carrying out homework assignments and the main techniques of motivational interviewing.
What are Solution-focused brief therapy techniques?
This theory would alienate client's with a family constellation intervention.
What is Adlerian?
This group goal focuses on the members' inherent worth and their abilities to solve their own problems.
What is person-centered?
Leaders assume a basic role of encouraging members to assess ways their freedom may be restricted, reflect on how they might increase their choices, and assume responsibility for their choices.
What is existential theory?
This theoretical approach has both leader and members explore the goals and issues they want to cover.
What is transactional analysis?
Use of script analysis checklist, questionnaire to detect early injunctions and decisions, games, life positions, family modeling, role playing and structural analysis.
What are transtheoretical analysis techniques?
You are a client whose family resists your new assertive style. Your group leader was working from this theoretical background.
What is CBT?