Irvin Yalom Group Psychotherapy – Flashcards

Theraputic Factors in Group Psychotherapy

1. Periodically calling attention to the improvement of the client and sharing it with the group. 2. The therapist believes in themselves and the efficacy of the group.

1. Group therapy can offer a sense of relief from isolation elicited from repressed thoughts, emotions, problems, impulses, and fantasies from the unconscious.

1. Direct advice that takes place in the therapy sessions with the group. 2. You can tell how old a group is by what kind of advice they give.

1. Due to limitations of mental illness the client might feel as if they are a burden to others. They may get a sense of importance in a group setting by helping others and being helped in return by others.

1. Once discomfort is overcome the individuals will act as leader and members as they did in their primary family group (mother, father, siblings). 2. Group therapy allows for family conflicts to be relieved through insight and role playing.

1. Through indirect role playing, open feedback about maladaptive behavior

1. Clients may act as therapists 2. Group members and therapist may model positive behaviors that influence members

1. Need and belonging is facilitated through deep interpersonal relationships

1. Interaction with the therapist and members can help facilitate insight to the emotional phenomena that is being elicit. 2. Spontaneous interaction, relearning about self, and honesty