Types of Counseling Groups
What are Psychotherapy Groups
Understanding the etiology of the problem behavior is irrelevant. Focus is on the solution of the problem.
What is Solution Focused Therapy?
One of the most significant contributions and key to understanding behavior and problems in personality. These are the thoughts, feelings, motives and impulses that are kept out of awareness as a protection against anxiety.
What is the "unconscious"?
Existentialism Group Therapy
Who is Yalom?
The 3 key concepts of Person-Centered therapy
What is Genuineness, Unconditional Positive Regard and Acceptance, and Empathy?
These groups feature the presentation and discussion of factual information and skill building through the use of planned skill-building exercises.
What are Psychoeducational Groups?
Maladaptive thinking comes from problematic behaviors, cognitions and emotions that have been learned, which can be re-learned.
What is the Cognitive Behavioral approach?
This is present at birth, consists of life and death instincts, and serves as a source of all psychic energy. It operates on the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Who is Albert Ellis?
A partnership between the group therapist and members in addressing the problems they bring to the group in CBT.
What is Collaborative Empiricism?
These groups focus on sharing feelings and thoughts in order to help each other identify and examine issues and/or concerns, and the leader acts as encourager.
What are Support Groups?
Inability to cope authentically with ultimate concerns of existence.
What is the Existential approach?
This states that id's libibo (aka sexual energy) is progressively centered on different body parts until conflict is resolved or becomes fixated. It can be remembered by the acronym "Orphan Annie was a Pretty Little Girl".
What is Freud's structural theory?
Person Centered Therapy
Who is Carl Rogers?
Basic unease that we experience when we become aware of our vulnerability and our inevitable death.
What is Existential Anxiety?
These groups address the application of principles and processes of group dynamics that can foster the accomplishment of identified work goals.
What are Task Facilitation Groups?
Using the wrong ego state to address a situation.
What is Transactional Analysis?
An essential component of the theory. It alerts the ego of impending internal and external threats and includes feelings of dread and impending doom resulting from repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experiences bubbling to surface of awareness.
What is Anxiety?
Solution Focused
Steve DeShazer
A false belief learned as a child that is currently directing one's life.
What is a Guiding Fiction?
These groups focus on sharing ideas and information concerning specific topics and/or issues, where the leader acts as facilitator.
What are discussion groups?
This approach does not have a view of maladaptive behavior, but instead focuses on the individual, and not the problem.
What is the Person-Centered Approach?
If ego is unable to ward off danger through rational, realistic means, it may resort to use of this.
What are defense mechanisms?
Who is Fritz Perls?
This is considered by many as the third force in psychology and refers to human's capacity to love, have choice, creativity, purpose, meaning, responsibility, and growth.
What is Humanistic Psychology?