List and describe the four types of groups presented in the chapter. What is the focus of each?
What will be an ideal response?
List four types of groups and describe when you would use each.
a. Psychoeducational Group
i. To convey information and examine values around a mental health topic
ii. To facilitate prevention of personal or societal disorder
iii. Example: psychoeducational group related to test anxiety or cyberbullying
b. Counseling Group
i. interpersonally problem- or concern-focused
ii. Focus on helping group participants resolve the usual, yet often difficult situations connected with living in an ever-changing society
iii. Increasing problem-solving or skill-development around a problem such as assertiveness, mild depression, anxiety, etc.
iv. Processing group
c. Psychotherapy
i. Designed to help individual group members resolve in-depth and sometimes serious psychological problems
ii. Example: CBT group for individuals with Bipolar Disorder
d. Task/Work Groups
i. Improve work practices and accomplish identified work goals
ii. Accomplishment and efficiency in completing identified work goals
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a. micro approach to solving the problem. b. psychoanalytic approach to solving the problem. c. macro approach to solving the problem. d. confrontational approach to solving the problem.
Which of the following statements is most true concerning the role of self-disclosure in existential psychotherapy?
a. therapists rarely find it helpful to reveal explicit details of their past and current life to clients, sharing only to facilitate treatment b. therapists find that fully disclosing even the most personal aspects of their personal life to clients helps to strengthen “the encounter” c. therapists make a conscious decision to share nothing of their past or current life with clients d. therapists self-disclose to whatever degree the client is able to self-disclose, sharing more of their past and present life with clients who also openly share more aspects of their personal life with the therapist
Which of the following is NOT true regarding family systems theory?
a. Families are interacting systems. b. Families are composed of interdependent members. c. Problems are viewed as specific issues that each individual brings into the system. d. The family is the unit of change.
One criteria which may be helpful to employ when considering the use of the scientific approach is to ______.
A. note whether progressively difficult situations arise that are resistant to change B. determine if there are diversity issues C. determine the lifestyle of the sample population D. determine what observational methods will be utilized