Maryville Nurs 661 Exam 2 Questions With
Correct Answers.
Blocking - answer✔✔stop counterproductive behavior of patient without attacking them
Empathiizing - answer✔✔Convey understanding, grasp patients world, identify with them by
their frame of reference
Evaluating - answer✔✔Assess behavior, assess group progress, ongoing after each session
Facilitating - answer✔✔enabling members withing the group, open up communication, help
members to increase responsibility
Giving Feedback - answer✔✔Help direct clients so they can reach their goals
Goal setting - answer✔✔the process of working toward something you want to accomplish
Inititating - answer✔✔Bring new ideas to the group, initiate effective group progress
Reflecting Feelings - answer✔✔Let members of the group know they are being heard and
understood
Suggesting - answer✔✔Offer advice leading to a point
Interpreting - answer✔✔Possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings or behaviors, trying
to make them aware of potential conflicts or contradictions
Risks Associated with Group Work - answer✔✔Patients doing worse, confidentiality, safety,
confrontation, one group member ganging up on another, intimidation
Who warns about potential risks in group work? - answer✔✔The leader
Benefits of group work - answer✔✔social support, getting perspectives from others, learning
other adaptive behaviors, learn coping skills
Major goals of group work - answer✔✔To resolve our own conflict, change is possible, learn
coping skills, things can change and get better but may be rough in the beginning, give them
hope
How does informed consent relate to group work - answer✔✔Notifies the clients what to expect
and the guidelines and they agree to participate, discuss potential problems. Appropriate both
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, legally and ethically to warn the client that they may be uncomfortable and there could be
confrontation.
What is an encounter group - answer✔✔An enactment of here and now but related to past or
future event
How is group counseling different - answer✔✔preventative and educations purposes using the
here and now (shorter)
How is group therapy different - answer✔✔Remediation of past problems/difficulties (longer)
What is the major difference between group counseling and group therapy - answer✔✔Different
goals
How are psychotherapy groups different - answer✔✔Education including past and present
How are self-exploration groups different - answer✔✔About personal growth, experience and
self-awareness groups, as leaders its a good idea for us to do them
How are task groups different - answer✔✔designed to assist task forces, committee, big projects
How are psychoeducational groups different - answer✔✔They have a central theme, more
structured, specific
How has managed care affected brief interventions and short-term groups - answer✔✔Need to
get them done fast and cost-effective, therapies and groups must be brief and short
Androgynous groups - answer✔✔issues that transcend usual male and female genders,
sometimes deal with gender discrimination
Heterogeneous groups - answer✔✔Diverse, range of ages and genders, microcosm of the social
structure that exists in the everyday world, a little bit of everyone
Homogenous groups - answer✔✔similar, common interest, narrowed and focused (PTSD with
veterans groups.
What does resistance mean in a group - answer✔✔Resistance is due to the failure of the leader to
provide a good orientation which would include the expectations of the groups, goals,
procedures, so patients may become resistant because they don't understand what is going to be
happening in the group. Always provide good orientation in the group setting.
repression - answer✔✔keeping memories forgotten, recognizing that the patient is repressing
likely trauma and they should be pulled out.
denial - answer✔✔suppressing unpleasant reality, refusing to accept there is a problem.
Substance abuse and they are in denial, pull off to the side and discuss privately. Describe what
we observe and how it affects others.
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