NR605 WEEK 6 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
group therapy first appeared in the _______ - ANSWER 1940s
-grew out of the need to efficiently treat large groups of psychiatrically disturbed soldiers following
World War II
figures in group therapy - ANSWER -Joseph Moreno
• psychodrama to enable veterans to participate in group dramatizations, reenact or role-play scenarios
in their past and present
• learn to better manage fears and anxieties
-Wilfred Bion
• identified fundamental patterns that could disrupt group work
-Samuel Slavson
• used psychoanalytic approaches in working with groups of disturbed children and adolescents
psychodrama - ANSWER Therapy in which clients act out personal conflicts and feelings in the presence
of others who play supporting roles
Stages
-the warm up
• getting to know each other
-the drama
• the enactment
-sharing
Group therapy - ANSWER -form of psychotherapy
-group of clients meets to discuss problems or concerns under the guidance of a therapist
, -one to two hours per week either online or in-person
-may be designed to address a specific problem or diagnosis or may be more general
-benefit, provides opportunity to expand access to care & efficiency
• therapists can provide tx to several clients at once
• more cost-effective than individual therapy
Mindfulness- and cognitive-based group therapy has shown efficacy for
____________________________ - ANSWER schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Group therapy has also shown efficacy in helping clients with physical diagnoses such as
____________________________________ - ANSWER neurological conditions, chronic pain, and cancer
Principles of Group Therapy - ANSWER Existential psychoanalyst Irvin Yalom identified eleven principles
that underpin group therapy:
1. Instillation of hope
2. Universality
3. Imparting information
4. Altruism
5. Corrective recapitulation of the primary family group
6. Development of socializing techniques
7. Imitative behavior
8. Interpersonal learning
9. Group cohesiveness
10. Catharsis
11. Existential factors
catharsis - ANSWER the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed
emotions.
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