Group psychotherapy

therapy (CBT) is better than other forms of psychotherapy. Therefore, there was a comparison in the effectiveness of CBT versus different types of psychotherapy to examine the relationship between different outcomes and the specific variables used in the studies. The quantitative review consisted on the search of journal articles from databases such as MEDLINE and PsycINFO. All the articles searched were studies about CBT vs. another form of psychotherapy, and then they were selected based on…

Every week there is a book club and skill group activity. During a book club activity, every group will share and exchange ideas about the therapy we learn from the textbook and the related readings; then we will be the therapists and apply the therapeutic techniques to a case with analyzing the ethics and approaches. From these book clubs, I have figured out the most appropriate therapy for school counseling. In the skill group activities, each group member will share his/her self-explorations…

Yalom has made numerous contributions to the teaching and practice of both group and individual psychotherapy. He is well known for the four givens of human existence, which are death, freedom, meaninglessness, and isolation. He believes that, “Therapy should not be theory-driven but relationship driven,” so as an existential therapists, he does not rely on symptom-based exploration of the client, but instead, in therapy he really focuses on having a more of a human encounter with his clients,…

By sharing such feelings and experiences within a group setting may help relieve pain, guilt, or stress being experienced by a member. Catharsis is considered a part of an interpersonal process that is more helpful during the latter part of the group process as supportive bonds are formed (Yalom, 2005). This value is important in adolescent groups as it validates the learning experience whilst working with peers. Interpersonal learning is described…

them. This causes them to seek help and intervention to help him or cope with what has happened. This intervention theory would be designed for military personal and their needs. This intervention theory would combine psychotherapy and therapeutic therapy together. Psychotherapy therapy is based upon providing a comfortable environment where the client feels relaxed and comfortable about opening up. He or she would be able to talk about what has happened to him or her. Therapeutic therapy…

Payne, K. T., & Marcus, D. K. (2008). The efficacy of group psychotherapy for older adult clients: A meta-analysis. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 12(4), 268-278. This review looked at whether group psychotherapy for older (55+) adults was effective. This search found 44 studies, 27 compared the treatment to a control condition with each of the studies provided pretreatment and posttreatment data. Twelve of these studies also provided follow-up data. A total of 1,381…

Patients and clients are likely to look different from each other, act different , and different morals and values. The mental health field has adopted cultural competency practices ,because of the variety of ethnic miniorty groups. Cultural competence is the ability to relate effectively to individuals from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. Culturally competent services respond to the unique needs of members of miniority populations and are also sensitive to the ways in…

Spiritually oriented interventions in psychotherapy with children and adolescents focuses on incorporating spiritual and/or religious content into secular models of treatment (Walker, 2012). This allows the therapist to provide the client with the best of worlds, theology and psychology. This combines spirituality and Biblically based theology with an addition of psychological sciences, creating a more complete treatment than either discipline could create on its own (Walker, 2012). If the…

be distinguished from traditional forms of individual and group therapy…

you can’t rule out the possibility that the medication played a role in the patients recovery. You also can’t deny therapy to a group of people to serve as a control group because it isn’t ethical (Clarkin et al., 2007). You can place people on a waitlist but they are able to seek their own treatment elsewhere. Therefore, there’s no way to have a standard control group during these types of studies. One study was only able to notice the reduction in hospital admissions in the last six months out…