NURS 3554 Chapter Notes - Chapter 34: Group Psychotherapy, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Psychodrama
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Save time, cost effective, come together for shared reasons, can share thoughts. Leader shares optimism about group and members share their improvements: aa groups share other recovery stories, share similar struggles, universality, share the same thing. Types of groups: heterogeneous groups, community meeting, homogeneous groups, bipolar group, closed groups, therapy group, open groups, aa group, task groups, activity group, process groups, psychodynamic/psychoanalysis group therapy, certified and trained. Other expected norms is that everyone works and does a fair share toward group goal (**always biggest fear of group members is that everyone will not do their fair share). Typically emerges when members compete with each other and/or the leader for control of the group, trying to exert strong influence and authority. It is the leader"s respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility to guide (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers through the (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t (cid:271)y helping them to negotiate issues and come to a reasonable resolution.
