Group Social Work
Which type of treatment group is intended to help people solve common but challenging problems of living, such as coping with a divorce or dealing with relationship issues?
What are counseling groups?
A generalist approach to working with at-risk families is what?
What is family social work?
This group theory assumes that people are prone to learning erroneous, self-defeating thoughts but that they are capable of unlearning them.
What is cognitive theory?
Establishing this feature is a central task for groups.
What is trust?
The counselor may change boundaries by rearranging where the family members are sitting as well as the distance between them in this therapy?
What is SFT?
Which group is used for people who have significant mental health problems and who need to reconstruct dimensions of their personality?
What are psychotherapy groups?
We approach family work from a dual perspective: strengths perspective and what?
What is child valuing perspective?
Whose theory postulates two opposing elemental life forces - that one is a built-in life growth force toward individuality and the differentiation of a separate ‘self,’ and the other an equally intense emotional closeness.
What is Bowen's Family Systems theory?
Combining the following three domains is the basis for a powerful and comprehensive approach to group counseling: affective, cognitive, and what?
During group, several members are bombarding a particular client named Sarah with questions, making Sarah uncomfortable. The group leader intervenes to put a stop to the bombarding and suggests that the group members explain why they are so curious about Sarah. This technique is called:
What is blocking?
What term is used to describe a situation in which a therapist sees a client as resembling a person from their own life, and the therapist projects feelings about that person onto a client?
What is counter-transference?
The foundation of family social work rests on the principle that children are best assisted when their families are...
What is functioning well?
In Bowen's family systems theory, triangles are linked closely with this concept, in that the greater the degree of fusion in a relationship, the more heightened the pull to preserve emotional stability by forming a triangle.
What is the concept of differentiation?
The primary goals of this group therapy include making the unconscious conscious and the restructuring of personality.
What is psychoanalytic therapy?
When a group leader suggests that two members talk with each other about a common experience they have had, this is called:
What is linking?
Members give very short answers. One member asks, “How long do these sessions usually last?” Another asks whether they have to share if they don’t want to. The facilitator is doing most of the talking. In which stage is this group?
What is the forming stage?
The therapeutic relationship is the context in which treatment originates; the best place to help families is where?
What is, in their home?
This group theory has a psychoeducational focus, a present and future orientation, and is a brief or time-limited approach.
What is Adlerian theory?
Counselors who follow SFT place themselves into the family system in order to transform the family structure is what process?
What is the process of joining?
In SFT, the therapist might use this technique to describe the conflict and the person who is initiating the conflict as detail-oriented and not critical.
What is reframing?
High trust, openness, and emotional depth; members engaging in meaningful therapeutic work; and groups managing conflict and repair ruptures are all sets of behaviors that can be seen in which of Tuckman's stages?
What is the performing stage?
Families want to stay together and overcome this common feature.
What are their differences?
These are the hidden (or sometimes, spoken) rules that a family has, according to Minuchin's structural family theory.
What are family transactional rule patterns?
This technique in Bowen's Family Systems therapy helps clients step out of unhealthy triangles and reduce emotional fusion.
What is a de-triangulation?
This Bowen's technique reveals patterns across generations—cutoffs, triangles, emotional processes, roles, and transmission of anxiety.
What is multigenerational mapping (or genogram constructing)?