Exam 13: Using Counseling Theories in Groups
If a leader uses Transactional Analysis with a group, he will teach them how _______states effect their interactions with others.
ego
Choose a theory and explain how group members can help a working member by
using that theory.
Using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, group members can help working members identify and dispute irrational thoughts, understand that it's their thoughts that cause their feelings, and clarify the working member's thoughts or feelings by asking questions. (p.XXXX) Using Reality Therapy, other members can help the working member identify their needs, what they really want, what he or she is doing, how to make better choices, and in developing and assessing a plan of action. (p.XXXXX) Using Adlerian Therapy, other members can help the working member identify and challenge guiding fictions, mistaken goals, and the purpose of his or her behavior. Adlerian Therapy places importance on social interaction, and group work is a perfect context for this. (p. XXXXXX) Using Transactional Analysis, group members may be used to identify and role play a working member's ego states, especially how to get and stay in the adult ego state. In addition, members may discuss how the ego states a person chooses to be in affect the issues he or she has (p. XXXXXX) Using Gestalt Therapy, other members may help a working member by role playing in role reversal, role playing to highlight the member's nonverbal behavior, or catching a member's specific use of language to heighten the member's awareness of it.
"It's easier to avoid life's problems than to face them" is an example of a/an _______________ belief that members can learn to dispute.
irrational
Choose two theories and explain how they are similar to and different from one another.
MATCHING: Match the descriptions of group situations below with the name of a listed theory.
List of theories:
-In a grief and loss group, the leader pulls an empty
chair in front of a working member and encourages
her to say what she did not get to say to her father
before he died in a sudden accident.
According to the authors, having a strong knowledge of theory as applied to individual counseling is most helpful when leading _______________and _______________groups.
In solution-focused counseling, the "miracle question" refers to how a member's religious beliefs fit into the counseling process.
In a "starting over" group for divorced women, discussion is centered upon members' private logic for not trying to meet new people. Which theory is the group using?
Why is it important for group leaders using Gestalt Therapy techniques be experienced
and knowledgeable?
According to Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, __________cause feelings.
Leaders using Adlerian theory will try to get members to identify the _______________of their behavior.
The most important stage of the Reality Therapy model is __________________.
According to the authors, an empty chair can be used with which of the following theories?
Which of the following is FALSE regarding counseling theory?
One value of using Gestalt theory in either individual or group counseling is to bring the members' past into the _________________.
One tool of Gestalt therapy is the use of the "hot seat", an electrical shock device that an individual sits in to change a bad habit.
Individual counseling theory has no place in a group counselor or therapy situation.
When focusing on one member in a therapy group for a long period of time, a leader can do which of the following?
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