Multicultural Perspective
True or false: It is appropriate for clinicians to facilitate difficult conversations about culture and race in the group.
What is True
This group type aims to foster accomplishing identified work goals
What are Task Groups
The client's expectation of therapy greatly affects its outcomes. A positive outcome is more likely when the client and clinician have similar expectations of treatment. It is important for the clinician to believe in themselves and the efficacy of the group. This is flexible and redefines itself as needed.
What is Instillation of Hope?
The process of presenting basic information about a group to potential group participants to assist them in deciding whether to enter the group and how to participate in it.
What is Informed Consent?
The major goals of this approach are to explore an individual's ambivalence, minimize this ambivalence, and build motivation. Emphasizes being purposeful and getting to the point to guide group members toward positive change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
What makes up culture?
Values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people
These groups are time limited and structured with clear ground rules
What are Brief Groups
There is no human deed or thought that lies fully outside the experience of other people. Clinicians must help the group recognize universal responses to human situations and tragedies. Members of groups begin to see their similarities to one another.
What is Universality?
Client information kept private. Leaders need to define the parameters including its limitations, and talk to members about the consequences of breaching.
This approach is based on examining the stories that people tell and understanding their meanings.Counselor asks questions from a not-knowing position. Members learn that they are not cemented to their problem-saturated stories and can develop alternative & more constructive stories.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Culturally Skilled Group Counselors need to be aware of their own...
Personal values, attitudes, biases, assumptions, and prejudices
This group aims at remediation of in-depth psychological problems and reconstructing personality dimensions
What are Psychotherapy Groups
Members gain through the reciprocal giving-receiving sequence. Group therapy encourages role versatility requiring clients to shift between roles of the help receivers and help providers. Clients attempt to give advice to other group members.
The belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
What is Altruism?
True or false: It is ethical and appropriate for the group leader to include their personal values in the group.
What is False?
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
The ongoing process of self-exploration and self-critique combined with a willingness to learn from other's experiences, perspectives, and values
What is Cultural Humility
This group aims to provide members with targeted education on a variety of psychological issues or informational deficits
What are Psychoeducational Groups
Clients in time may mimic the behaviors of the clinician or other group members (how they sit, walk, talk, and think). Group counselors influence the communicational patterns in their groups by modeling behaviors. Clients make try out different pieces of other people to work toward finding out who/what they are and are not.
What is Imitative Behavior?
This is essential to utilize when ethical issues arise in practice.
What is Supervision?
This approach aims to help people find better ways to met their needs for survival, love, belonging, power, freedom, & fun. Both involvement and concerns for group members are demonstrated by the leader. Key concept is that human beings have a desire & choice to change.
What is Reality Therapy?
All the elements that are basic to the unfolding of a group from beginning to end. Examples: Group norms, generating trust, conflict, inter member feedback.
What is the Group Process
This group aims at preventive and educational purposes and utilizes methods of interactive feedback within a here-and-now time framework
What are Counseling Groups
Didactic Instruction (Psychoeducation): Participants learn about psychic functioning, the meaning of symptoms, interpersonal and group dynamics, and the process of psychotherapy.
Direct Advice: Direct advice from the members occurs without exception in every therapy group. The process of giving the advice may be more beneficial than the content, conveying mutual interest and caring.
What is Imparting Information?
You give your colleagues a percentage of your earnings if/when they refer new clients to your services. This practice is CONSIDERED to be:
A. Unethical
B. Innovative
C. An advertising fee
D. Very common in large metropolitan areas
A. Unethical
The NASW Code of Ethics specifically prohibits the payment of fees for referrals.
Question is from the Behavioral Health App, which provides free study questions from the LCSW Exam.
What is Adlerian Therapy?