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| Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy | Founded by Albert Ellis, REBT is based on the premise that thoughts cause feelings. In groups, the leader helps members focus on changing their feelings by looking at what they are telling themselves. |
| Reality Therapy | Founded by William Glasser, Reality Therapy proposes that human beings are responsible for making choices about behavior that such choices are intended to meet five basic human needs: survival, love & belonging, power (achievement), freedom (to make life decisions), and fun. Very little focus is given to members' past, and the group leader's role is to encourage members to make better choices. |
| WDEP | Used by the group leader in Reality Therapy. W= identifying wants, D= identifying what you are currently doing, E= self-evaluation, P= planning |
| Adlerian Therapy | Founded by Alfred Adler, Adlerian Therapy focuses on early childhood, and the family/social interactions that took place during that time. Adler emphasized that all behavior is purposeful. A group leader will focus members on their "private logic", which includes mistaken goals and guiding fictions about themselves, the world, and others. |
| Psychoanalytic Therapy | The goal of the analytic process is restructuring the client's character and personality system. This goal is achieved by making unconscious conflicts conscious and examining them. Psychoanalytic groups reenact the family of origin in a symbolic way via the group so that the historical past of each member is repeated in the group's presence. The group atmosphere allows for a deeper analytic search than is possible in individual analysis because the group ego supports and facilitates deeper exploration. |
| Regressive-Reconstructive Approach | Used in psychoanalytic group therapy. Is the process of creating one's family. |
| Psychodrama | Created by J.L. Moreno and developed by his wife, Zerka Toeman Moreno. The client acts out the past, present, or anticipated life situations and roles in an attempt to gain deeper understanding, achieve catharsis, and develop behavioral skills. Designed to facilitate the expression of feelings in a spontaneous and dramatic way through the used role playing. |
| Existential Therapy | Can be described as people making a commitment to a life-long journey in self-exploration. |
| Goals of Existential Therapy | 1. Enabling members to become truthful with themselves. 2. Widening their perspectives on themselves and the world around them. 3. Clarifying what gives meaning to their present and future life. |
| Person-Centered Therapy | Developed by Carl Rogers, and is primarily a way of being that finds its expression in attitudes and behaviors that create a growth-producing climate. It is a philosophy rather than simply a technique or method. WHen this philosophy is lived, it helps the person expand the development of his/her own capacities. It also stimulates constructive change in others. Expereince shwos that it tends to be used for personal and social transformation. This therapy is best considered as a 'way of being' rather than a 'way of doing'. Many of the key concepts of existential therapy seem to overlap with the humanistic theory. |
| Transactional Analysis Theory | Developed by Eric Bern. Centered around three ego images - child, parent, and adult. Proposes that children develop a life script, which they follow from childhood throughout life. Brings past issues into the present. |
| Child Ego (TA) | The client's childhood experiences. |
| Parent Ego (TA) | The client's exact copy of their parent. |
| Adult Ego (TA) | The client's rational side. |
| Behavioral Therapy | A basic assumption is that most problems, cognitions, behaviors, and emotions are learned, and that new learning can correct them. Views the behaviors as the problem, rather than symptoms of a problem. |
| Gestalt Therapy | Developed by Fritz Perls. Based on the assumption that we are best understoond in the context of our environment. The basic goal is to provide a context that will enable members to increase their awareness of what they are experiencing and doing. The approach of the group is non-interpretive. Group members make their own interpretations and statements and discover the meaning of their experiences. Leaders avoid interfering with client interpretations and deal with whatever the person seems to be experiencing at the moment. Group members are encouraged to try on a new style of behavior, to give expression to certain dimensions of their personality that are dormant. |
