Midreview Psychotherapies

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Yalom: instillation of hope

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leader shares optimism members share success of therapy and improvements

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Universality

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members realize that they are not alone with problems feelings or thought

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imparting information

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receive formal teaching from leader or advice from peers

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altruism

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gain profit from helping others

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corrective recapitulation of the primary family group

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members repeat patterns learned from family, with feedback from peers and leaders, learn about their own behavior

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Development of social techniques

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learn new social skills, learn from modeling, role playing

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imitative behaviors

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copy behaviors from peers or leader that help them adopt healthier habits

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interpersonal learning

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gain insight into themselves based on feedback from others

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group cohesiveness

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power factor that arises when a mature group that is connected and can accept both positive an dnegitive feedback

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Catharsis

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though experiencing and expressing of feelings therapeutic discharge of feelings

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existential resolution

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examine aspects of life that effect everyone (loneliness, mortality responsibility) in constructive meaning
processing issues such as suffering, change and the meaning of life together

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A patient tells the members of the inpatient therapy group that he hears voices saying his doctor is going to poison him. Another patient replies, “I used to hear voices too. They sounded real, but I found out later they were my imagination. The voices you hear are not real either.” Which phenomenon common to groups is exemplified in this interchange?

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Interpersonal learning

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A patient in a group therapy session listens for a time and then remarks, “I used to think I was the only one who felt afraid. I guess I’m not as alone as I thought.” This is an example of:

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universality.