Chapters 9-13

Front 1

What Group Developed by Carl Rogers and Kurt Lewin and emphasis on creating a learning community built on trust and honesty?

Back 1

Encounter Group

Front 2

What group had an undefined agenda is didactic and instructional rather than focusing on feelings?

Back 2

Psycho-educational Groups

Front 3

What is another name for Psycho-Educational Groups?

Back 3

Guidance Groups

Front 4

Group counseling focuses on the "____________"

Back 4

Here and now

Front 5

Short-term counseling that emphasizes relationship support factors

Back 5

Group Counseling

Front 6

Group counseling and therapy groups are theoretically different but similar when in practice.

T or F

Back 6

True

Front 7

Counseling programs do not prepare students for what type of psychotherapy

Back 7

Group psychotherapy

Front 8

Psychotherapy requires what kind of training

Back 8

Long term, intensive training, further training required.

Front 9

How does psychotherapy work?

Back 9

Therapy group meets weekly for 2 years

Has various types of participants

Has two leaders...psychiatrist and psychologist

Front 10

Who leads a Self help group

Back 10

does not have a trained leader/leader tends to emerge from the group

Front 11

Self help groups focus on

Back 11

A single issue

Front 12

Self help groups provide

Back 12

emotional and social support

Develop new ideas about coping with a common issue

Membership is open and fluctuates from meeting to meeting.

Front 13

permits other to learn by observation. Learning becomes contagious.

Back 13

Spectator Effect

Front 14

Group Work Advantages

Back 14

Cost Efficiency
Spectator effect
Stimulation Value
Support

Front 15

Groups supply the nurturing elements of

"_____________" and psychological bonding.

Back 15

Intimacy

Front 16

A Therapeutic group can develop into a
"________________" family without the rigid authoritarian hierarchies

Back 16

Surrogate

Front 17

Support vs. Love

Yalom and Lescs

Back 17

Identifies the curative factors that are believed to be crucial to the healing and growth process of groups.

•Some imply instilling hope, developing social skills and releasing emotion.

Front 18

What are cues for an intervention?

Back 18

Withdrawal and passivity

Lethargy and boredom

Front 19

How to intervene when a person is doing Withdrawal and passivity

Back 19

Draw the Person into the group

Consult with person after the session privately

Front 20

In the 1960’s and 1970’s, which of the following groups had the goal of creating a learning community built on honesty and trust, and usually had a fairly loose structure?

Back 20

the encounter group.

Front 21

Which of the following groups has structured activities, a definite agenda, and a focus on preventing problems?

Back 21

d. the psychoeducational group.

Front 22

A type of group in which members may have been diagnosed as having some mental disorder (requiring long-term treatment, intense analysis, and structural personality changes), is termed:

Back 22

a. therapy group.

Front 23

All of the following guidelines for group leadership are likely to reduce the occurrence of negative effects for group membership:

Back 23

a. using a pre-group interview to assess expectations and evaluate the normative structure of the group.

b. monitor the ratio of confrontation to avoid over stimulating members.

c. accept responsibility for the emotional climate of the group.

Front 24

What are the advantages of group work?

Back 24

a. cost efficiency.

b. stimulation value.

c. spectator effects.

d. opportunities for feedback and support.

Front 25

Growth in groups tends to occur through the process of:

Back 25

a. observation.

b. social learning.

c. identification.

Front 26

The group process includes all of the following stages

Back 26

a. initial stage.

b. forming stage.

d. transition stage.

e. working stage.

Front 27

When the physical safety or emotional welfare of a group member is in danger, the group leader must:

Back 27

Intervene and take responsibility for protecting client safety.

Front 28

It is the responsibility of the group leader to intervene in the group process when:

Back 28

c. the group focus becomes rambling and digressive.

Front 29

When a group member withdraws from the group and remains passive, the group leader must:

Back 29

b. intervene in an attempt to involve the member, without violating their right to privacy.

Front 30

When counselors work through semantic errors, it is their responsibility to:

Back 30

understand, relate, facilitate, and structure the group interaction.

Front 31

Which of the following best describes why group work is particularly effective?

Back 31

d. it more closely simulates social interactions and interpersonal communication patterns.

Front 32

Potentially destructive group members are most effectively dealt with through:

Back 32

b. screening procedures.

Front 33

In group counseling, as in individual work, participant discomfort is most often associated with:

Back 33

c. the process of change.

Front 34

In Carl Rogers’ original conception of growth groups, the leader was viewed primarily as:

Back 34

facilitator-participant.

Front 35

Self-help and support groups are characterized by all of the following

Back 35

the leader, though not usually professionally trained, is more experienced in the issues being addressed.

b. group membership is open and fluctuates from meeting to meeting.

d. they provide positive direction and emotional and social support for members.

e. they focus on helping members develop new coping skills.

Front 36

Generally speaking, all of the following distinguish self-help/support groups from counseling/therapy groups:

Back 36

b. a focus on political and social issues vs. individual ones.

c. leaders emerge fluidly from membership, vs. being pre-designated and non-members.

d. a focus on a single issue vs. overall interpersonal functioning.

e. targeting less pathological, focused concerns vs. broader, more pervasive mental health concerns.

Front 37

A genogram is a tool that gathers family members’ cross-generational and intergenerational history including:

Back 37

a. coalitions and boundaries.

b. connections and conflicts.

Front 38

Communication in families occurs on which levels?

Back 38

d. literal and symbolic.

Front 39

A strategic family counselor would be concerned primarily with resolving _______?

Back 39

power hierarchies.

Front 40

Reframing is defined as:

Back 40

redefining the stated problem.

Front 41

The term “externalizing” is another form of reframing which allows the family to

Back 41

view the symptoms as outside the family and prevent blame.

Front 42

All of the following are examples of directive strategies

Back 42

b. opposition through compliance.

c. forcing the spontaneous.

d. pretending.

e. slowing down.

Front 43

The process of initiating directives usually involves:

Back 43

a. redefining the problem in a resolvable and less threatening way.

b. motivating and preparing the family members to follow (or not to follow) the directive(s).

c. presenting the directives(s) in a simple, clear, and realistic manner so that all participants understand.

Front 44

Family counselors frequently make use of directives that are:

Back 44

c. intended to initiate changes in the family power structure.

Front 45

In which type of relationship would there be an emphasis on exchange as the people maneuver for a more powerful position?

Back 45

b. complementary.

Front 46

The types of negative interactions between couples identified by Gottmann (1999) include all of the following:

Back 46

a. criticism.

b. defensiveness.

c. stonewalling.

e. contempt.

Front 47

All of the following are family counseling skills:

Back 47

a. restructuring family coalitions.

c. assessing power hierarchies.

d. “joining” or building rapport.

e. reframing problems to be more solvable.

Front 48

The family counselor frequently views the disruptive behavior of a family member as:

Back 48

c. functional and possibly helpful.

Front 49

The biggest difficulty in learning to do effective sex counseling tends to be:

Back 49

c. confronting one’s attitudes, values, and beliefs related to sex.

Front 50

The statement “all behaviors are interrelated” has implications for family counseling, including:

Back 50

a. no one in the family is psychologically “sick”.

b. no one person is to blame for the family’s problems.

Front 51

Gottman’s (1999) research on couples showed that:

Back 51

a. anger itself was not a predictor for divorce.

b. contempt was the most powerful predictor of an unhappy marriage.

c. positive emotions can outweigh negative ones and repair damage.

d. conversations begun harshly predict unhappy couples.

Front 52

The three principles given for helping couples express anger in a healthy way include all of the following:

Back 52

b. reporting the underlying distress.

c. reporting the specific behavior causing distress.

d. reporting the desired replacement behavior.

Front 53

dysfunctional family

Back 53

is term did not exist until the latter years of the 20th century

Front 54

Identified patient

Back 54

person in the group that has the problem.

Front 55

Focus directed toward organizational structures and natural development, that are a part of all

Back 55

Family

Front 56

Counselors role is partly to reestablish a ______________hierarchical organization

Back 56

Single

Front 57

What tow levels of communication?

Back 57

Digital and analogical

Front 58

Digital

Back 58

Literal and content oriented

Front 59

Analogical

Back 59

deeper communication that is typically subtle

Front 60

This second form of directives takes the form of suggesting to those w/o power that the only way they will get any control is to

Back 60

Back Down

Front 61

n the physical world, when we attempt without success to solve a problem by a certain action, we will try something else—usually the _

Back 61

Opposite

Front 62

Pretend or ________________symptoms that you want eliminated–leading to realization that you are in control of your behavior & you can change them.

Back 62

Exaggerate

Front 63

Counselors must be mindful when “_________________________” in families; t

Back 63

stirring the pot

Front 64

Anger Coping mechanisms?

Back 64

Time Out•

Stop fight•

Asses situation•

Address in a calm manner