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| Three flexible characteristics of therapy groups | setting, goals and time frame |
| Clinical Settings of Groups | vary widely and effect the structure and functioning of the group |
| Time Frame | Consist of the life of the group and length of stay in group of each patient an relys on the goal and setting of group. |
| Group Setting | The tool which makes GT of therapy so powerful |
| Early Interpersonal Relationships | thought to be responsible for forming the personality and a person's behavioral patterns |
| Didactic Instruction | When the facilitator of the group gives specific instruction to its members such as in psychoeducational groups. |
| Advice Giving | Seen in certain self help groups and given by members to other members of the group. In later stages of the group may not be helpful. |
| Installation of Hope | When group members see that other members have made it through what they are going through and take on the belief that they too can make it through |
| Universiality | When patients experience problems, they often feel they are the only ones in the world experiencing the problems. In group therapy, people meet others experiencing the same problems and learn they are not alone. |
| Imparting of information | When the facilitator uses didactic instruction or members use advice giving to teach or lead group members. |
| Altruism | Unique to group therapy, this factor allows patients to experience the feeling of giving to others through supporting, encouraging and providing insight to fellow group members which inturn boosts self esteem and reduces self absorbtion |
| Developing of socialization techniques | Group therapy offers both direct teaching of these skills as well as group membership offering insight to maladaptive approaches by other members who offer more acceptable skills. |
| Imitative behavior | When members learn from other members through vicarious experiences such as watching other members interact in conflict or noticing other members appropriate dress. |
| Catharsis | Ventilation of ones feelings with others who accept such ventilation. This factor is relient on the group's cohesiveness and universitality. |
| Corrective Recapitulation of the primary family group | Members of groups may react to other members in the group as they did and do with their family of origin members. These reactions may be maladaptive. The facilitator helps members change these behaviors as they see them acted out in the group. |
| Existential Factors | When members of the group learn that they themselves are responsible for how they live and their behavior. Allowing members to accept their limitations with courage. |
| Cohessiveness | Feeling of belonging and acceptance to the group. This factor can in and of itself be curative as once a person experiences the feeling of accpetance in the group, they can expereince a sense of belonging to the larger society. When Cohesiveness is experienced, members begin to trust and share in a more intimate manner. |
| Interpersonal Relationships | How a person relates to other human beings and often the an accompaning exasierbator to psychopathology. |
| Corrective Emotional Experience | When a member experiences strong emotional response or behavior and when the member realizes his or her response is maladaptive. |
| Social Microcosim | a miniature representation of each members larger social universe. |
