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The Group Leader
Termination
100
Rules can formed and agreed upon by the members of the group promoting an increase in this.
What is Adherence.
100
Anger, interrupting, defensiveness, arguing, ignoring, shutting down, or leaving the room are signs of this.
What is Resistance?
100
Efficiency, cost effectiveness, limiting the individual effect of no-shows, and creating a sense of community are all reasons for this.
What is group treatment.
100
He suggested intense supervision when counselors begin leading groups.
Who is Yalom?
100
Coming to the end of group therapy, premature termination, and termination for a cause are all this.
What are ways group members terminate?
200
An individual with severe impulse or anger control problems, who is suicidal, or in acute crisis would not be considered this type of fit for group therapy?
What is a Good Fit?
200
While 8-20 sessions is the average for most outpatient treatment programs, this number is the length of most inpatient programs.
What is 2-4 Weeks?
200
Constantly changing membership (in open groups) and trouble recruiting enough participants before groups begin (in closed groups) are two reasons for this.
What are reasons group therapy research is limited?
200
Confrontational and adversarial group leaders can lead to this.
What is adverse effects and poor outcomes?
200
Contacting group members who miss a session is a way to prevent this.
What is premature termination?
300
In this stage of therapy, it is beneficial for the therapist to meet individually to better understand the goals and concerns about group therapy.
What is the Screening Interview?
300
This type of group minimizes the disruptive effects of a changing group membership, capitalizes on group cohesion, and permits a developmental sequence.
What is a Closed Group?
300
This kind of treatment is a good choice for people with severe substance use, a greater negative affect, and greater perceived deficits in coping skills.
What are cognitive behavioral groups?
300
This therapeutic skill stops certain group members from dominating and helps keep the group on track.
What is redirection?
300
One week, Tom throws chairs in group therapy. The next week, Tom spits on a group member. Tom has violated group rules, now, Tom and his therapist are addressing this.
What is termination for cause?
400
Though done differently between open and closed groups, all members must participate in this before working with the group as a whole.
What is Orientation?
400
These types of groups allow people to learn from each other and remove the need to change groups if treatment goals change.
What are Heterogeneous Groups?
400
This approach was determined to be the least effective approach in a review of 381 clinical trials.
What is an educational/dialectic treatment approach?
400
This is achieved when the emotional experience of a member is one of acceptance, empathy, support, predictability, and honesty.
What is Cohesion?
400
Susie was living in Milwaukee and attending group therapy for her addiction to alcohol. Then, she got a job in Idaho and moved away, and, obviously, quit attending her group therapy sessions in Milwaukee. Susie experienced this kind of termination.
What is premature termination?
500
Due to the sensitive nature of disclosure and privacy within the group, this is perhaps the most important rule to have clients follow.
What is Confidentiality?
500
Sharing an appropriate amount of information while keeping the focus on the client is an example of this form of self-disclosure.
What is Judicious.
500
Addiction is not solely due to a lack of knowledge or insight, which may explain this.
What are poor outcomes in testing of educational/dialectic treatment approaches?
500
Helping a group member develop an understanding of themselves and others (insight) is this.
What is meaning attribution?
500
Bob began attending a 6 month long group for his addiction to heroin. (6 months later) Bob attended all the sessions and has been sober for 6 months! He is experiencing this kind of termination.
What is coming to the end of group therapy?