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HLSC 2120. …Are you ready to change your mind? If not, you are not ready to learn, for learning is the process of changing your mind. We can learn – change our mind – only when we can admit that we don’t yet know it all. Group leader setting norms : Learn to act in a new way
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…Are you ready to change your mind? If not, you are not ready to learn, for learning is the process of changing your mind. We can learn – change our mind – only when we can admit that we don’t yet know it all.
Group leader setting norms: • Learn to act in a new way • The therapist modeling new behaviours • What the therapist does is more important than what she say
Disclosure in the Group: • Process vs. Content
Anti-therapeutic Norms within Groups: • Take turns format • One-topic format • Can you top this • Tightly knit group: become hostile to new people • Leader-centred group • One sided experience
Yalom' s Interactional Model of Group Psychotherapy • The here and now • Interaction between group members • Cohesion/a therapeutic community
The Here and Now: • ‘The power cell of group’ • the ‘key concept of group therapy’ Yalom, 1985 • Group members need to pay immediate attention to what is happening now
The Here and Now: • Rutan (1983)… group members will not have to talk about their problems in group, they will have them.
The Here and Now: • The immediate events in the group take precedence over the events in the past
The Here and Now • The therapist needs to ask: why is this person making this statement to this person at this time in this manner.
The Here and Now • The therapist needs to ask themselves; how does this material apply to the present how can this event come alive in the here and now.
The Here and Now … of all the material that a group member can talk about, why have they chosen this topic at this time
Interactions Between Group Members • How members express new feelings toward one another • How they evolve their emotional relationships
Cohesion • Refers to the attraction that members have for their group and for other members. • Such members are accepting of one another, supportive and inclined to form meaningful relationships with each other.