Key Concepts
Emphasizes social interest and family constellation
What is Adlerian therapy?
Helping members gain awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the here-and-now.
What is increasing self-awareness?
Members work with therapist to co-construct enlivening alternative stories
What is narrative therapy?
i messed this one up
need to fix
Group leader assists in forming hypotheses & testing assumptions
What is collaborative empiricism (Cognitive Therapy)?
Highlights the importance of personal responsibility, freedom, and meaning-making
What is existential therapy?
Supporting members in replacing unhelpful patterns with healthier, more effective ones.
What is promoting behavior change?
Leader has task of keeping group members on a solution track rather than a problem track
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Asking members to picture and act out a situation to gain new insight.
What is role playing/psychodrama?
This approach emphasizes social interest, belonging, and reframing mistaken beliefs.
What is Adlerian therapy?
Externalizing problems and re-authoring life stories are central here
What is narrative therapy?
Strengthen intrinsic motivation for change by resolving ambivalence
What is motivational interviewing?
Group leaders teach members how to unconditionally accept themselves and others... and avoid condemning themselves
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Challenging distorted thoughts and replacing them with healthier ones.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This theory relies on empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard to foster growth.
What is the person-centered approach?
Pinpoints cognitive errors and works to correct them
What is cognitive therapy?
Help clients take responsibility for choices and behaviors in the present
What is reality therapy/choice theory?
Planning interventions while staying responsive.
What is balancing structure and flexibility?
“If a miracle happened overnight, how would things be different?”
What is the miracle question?
This approach focuses on the here-and-now, awareness, and integrating unfinished business.
What is Gestalt therapy?
Deliberately directive approach to "get to the point" and facilitate change
What is motivational interviewing?
Fostering connections so members feel less isolated and more supported.
What is developing interpersonal skills and social support?
Intervening when conflicts, microaggressions, or unsafe behaviors arise in the group.
What is maintaining group safety?
Having members practice new behaviors in the group before trying them in real life.
What is behavioral rehearsal?
This perspective treats members as co-authors of meaning through narrative and solution-focused techniques.
What is the postmodern approach?