Clinical Psychology

15 Group Therapy, Family Therapy, and Couples Therapy FOCUS QUESTIONS What are the basic assumptions, arrangements/ features, a ...

CHAPTER SUMMARY KEY TERMS WEB SITES OF INTEREST O ne could argue that most of the problems that bring patients to therapy are ac ...

was but a short distance away. As a result, nearly every school or approach to individual psychother- apy now has its group coun ...

A Case Illustration of Psychoanalytic Group Therapy This particular group consists of three men (A, B, C), three women (X, Y, Z) ...

In general,psychodrama involves a patient, a stage on which the drama is played, a director or therapist,“auxiliary egos”(other ...

A transactional analysis involves the determination of which ego states are operative in a given transac- tion between people. A ...

approaches, the therapist in group behavioral ther- apy often plays a very active, almost didactic role, providing lessons, skil ...

on practical considerations. Some therapists feel strongly that a heterogeneous group is best— one that includes women and men w ...

group; closed groups admit no new members once the group has begun to function. Issues of confi- dentiality in group therapy can ...

factorsisneededtobetterunderstandwhyand how group therapy works (Bednar & Kaul, 1994; Burlingame et al., 2004; Rose, 1991). ...

same child,“Never question my authority. I am your father, and what I say goes!”The contradic- tion inherent in the two messages ...

therapy, and on and on. Theoretical approaches range from the systemic, to the psychodynamic, to the behavioral, and on to those ...

running a school for students with psychiatric and developmental disorders. My job now is multifaceted and always busy. I can sa ...

Some General Characteristics. Certain aspects of family therapy differentiate it from the customary individual therapy. For exam ...

the therapist in their power struggles or in their defenses against open communication. A history and assessment process is a ty ...

In conjoint and other forms of family therapy, there are five basic modes of communication (Satir, 1975): placating (always agre ...

relate to what is real). These modes of communication provide, in a sense, the essence of communication and feeling. They do not ...

BOX15-3 Graduate Student Perspective: David Wagner, M.A. David V. Wagner is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in clin- ical psycho ...

allowed me to pursue research in the very areas that brought me to graduate school in the first place. Tell us about the work yo ...

(Henggeler, 2011). Finally, MST has been modified to address other clinical problems as well, including youth emotional disturba ...