Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Psychoanalytic Group
Introduction
Raymond Corsini
(family counseling groups)
Donald Dinkmeyer
(packaging Alderian group models)
Adlerian Groups
Premise
Other tenets
Heart of psychodrama:
Multidimensional
Factors
Psychodrama Stage: Where action takes place
Protagonist: Person whole is subject of psychodrama
Actors: Those play the parts of other important
people
Director: Guides the protagonist
Audience: Others who may be present
Psychodrama Groups
Practice of psychodrama in a group
Process
Techniques
Not a theory
Suffering, by finding a
proper attitude toward
unalterable fate
Frankl (2000)
Existential Groups
Premise
1. Milling around
2. Resistance
3. Revealing past feelings
4. Expression of negative feelings
5. Expression of personally
meaningful material
6. Communication of immediate interpersonal feeling
7. Development of a healing capacity in the group
8. Self-acceptance and the beginning of change
Rogerian Oriented Encounter Group 15 Stage Process
9. Cracking of facades
10. Feedback
11. Confrontation
12. Helping relationships outside the group
13. The basic encounter
14. Expression of closeness
15. Behaviour changes
Gestalt Groups
Gestalt Groups
Introduction
Principle of Awareness
Principle of figure/ground
Principle of Polarities
Enactment
Directed behavior
Fantasy
Dreams
Homework
Gestalt Groups
Gestalt Experiments and Exercises
Enactment
Directed Behavior
Fantasy Exercises
Helps members
Homework
NA N
The child ego state is divided into 2
AD A AF parts: the Adapted Child conforms to
A T DR
TP U the rules and wishes of parent ego
UT R AEE Child
E
RD
A
L
P state within the self and others. The
A T Free Child reacts more spontaneously,
L E
D has fun, is curious and playful.
Transactional Analysis Group
Premises
Complementary transactions
Crossed transactions
Ulterior transactions
Transactional Analysis Group
Practice of transactional analysis in a group
Therapeutic contracts
Classic contracts
Structural analysis
Transactional analysis
Game analysis
Life script analysis
Redecision contract
Transactional Analysis Group
Practice of transactional analysis in a group
Gouldings’ approach
Transactional Analysis Group
Stages of transactional analysis
INITIAL STAGE –
Establishing quality relationship with the members –
Creating a safe place, nurturing, adequate structure,
And support.
WORKING STAGE–
Rackets (e.g. anger racket) members use to justify
Their life scriptss and, ultimately, their decisions
Is explored.
Games are analyzed to see how they support and
maintain rackets and how they fit into one’s life
script.
Discover the original injunction that lies at the bas
of these early decisions.
Transactional Analysis Group
Stages of transactional analysis
WORKING STAGE–
Determine the kinds of strokes he received to
support the original injunctions
Members take responsibility for their thinking,
feeling and behaving and are challenged to
discover alternate choices.
To generate the decision and empowerment to
change, situations are remembered and relived
from the Child ego state.
Transactional Analysis Group
Stages of transactional analysis
FINAL STAGE–
Group provides support for change.
Planning specific ways to transfer changes from
therapy situation to their daily life.
Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy
Groups
Goal of the CBT Group
1958
Types of Groups
Closed ended
Open ended
Can be as large as 100
Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Groups
Premises
Premises: stoic and humanistic
A = Event
B = Thought Process
C = Feeling state resulting from one’s thoughts
Discourages
Successfully applied
Abraham Maslow
O. Mohrer’s integrity therapy – helping people live
up to their moral conviction
R. Wubbolding’s WDEP = wants//direction and
doing//evaluation//planning
Reality Therapy Groups
Practice in a group