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Covers group therapy terms as it relates to the LMSW Exam.

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Problem Solving Groups   Although these groups deal with problems that could probably have been solved through individual effort, the group adds diverse resources, error safeguards and motivation.  
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Education Groups   Exemplified by study groups and designed to advance learning, education groups should have demographically similar members with different ability levels according to Shaw  
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Experimental Groups   These include T-groups as well as therapy, encounter, personal growth and sensitivity-training groups.  
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T Groups   Emphasizing feedback, problem solving and decision making, this group aims to improve organizational relationship skills by focusing on the group process  
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Personal Growth groups   Typically meeting for a set time, these groups encourage risk taking for personal growth and development.  
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Guidance Groups   Primarily for prevention of problems facing high-risk populations, these groups focus on improvement of life skills and overall direction of members.  
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Counseling Groups   For secondary prevention and/or correction, these groups include encounter, sensitivity and organizational development groups.  
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Psychotherapy Groups   These groups are tertiary prevention groups with the purpose of reeducating, rehabilitating and generally bringing members to healthy function.  
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Uniqueness   A sense of belonging, shared problems, support, a microcosm, information, and giving all add to the _____________ of group therapy.  
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Autocratic   This style of leadership is one in which the leader does not seek any sort of input or consultation with others of the group, resulting most often in high levels of discontent.  
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Democratic   This style of leadership allows everyone within the group to have a voice in the decision-making process, although the final power of decision may still rest on the group's leader  
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Laissez Faire   This style of leadership allows everyone within the group to make their own decisions.  
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Groupthink   The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.  
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Screening   This is an absolutely necessary aspect of beginning a group.  
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Heterogeneous Groups   Groups whose members share few similarities.  
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Homogeneous Groups   Groups whose members share the same characteristics.  
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Deviant   It is best to screen out people who may be labeled this due to being the youngest, unmarried, sickest, or the only one with a certain characteristic.  
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Communication Patterns   Paying attention to verbal and nonverbal communication helps the therapist to effectively move toward group goals. These verbals and nonverbals are known as........  
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Cohesiveness   Irving Yalom argues that this group dynamic is a major factor in a successful outcome  
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Social Control   This involves the norms, roles, expectations and status that let groups function effectively, if not always smoothly.  
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Norms   Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior.  
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Role Expectations   Group determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role  
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Status   The position outside the group combined with behavior in the group, contribute to in-group ranking of members; willingness to conform to group norms is affected by this.  
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Group Culture   Arising from beliefs, customs and values of its members and the environment in which a group is set, group culture influences objectives, tasks, interaction and methods.  
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Performing Forming Storming Norming   Name Tuckman's four stages of a group.  
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Post Group Initial Transition Working Final   Name Corey and Corey's five stage of a group.  
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Anxiety Responsibility Freedom   What are the three central issues in an existential group and individual therapy?  
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Existential Vacuum   In Existential Group Therapy, this is an enduring pervasive pattern of existential frustration, where one experience ones life as being mostly empty.  
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Logotherapy   A form of existential group therapy that emphasizes need to find and maintain meaning in one's life  
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Existential Crises   In Existential Group Therapy, theses are struggles that occur when people are forced to face disturbing questions about themselves such as "Who am I?" or "What is my life purpose now?"  
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Life and Death   Existential group therapy focuses on the meaning of these two aspects of life.  
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Gestalt Group Therapy   This group therapy promotes self awareness and the ability to take responsibility for one's own actions and behaviors.  
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Psychoanalytic Group Therapy   For this type of group, it is particularly important to focus on experiences from the first 6 yrs of life,.Group work encourages participants to relive significant relationships.  
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Insight   In Psychoanalytic Group Therapy, this should be the main focus of therapy and is characterized by working through repressed material.  
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Long Term   In Psychoanalytic Group Therapy, is group work normally long term or short term?  
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Transference and Resistance   In Psychoanalytic Group Therapy, these two aspects constitute the bulk of the work.  
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Group Disequilibrium   This occurs when members experience too little intimacy (isolation) or too much intimacy (engulfment)  
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Group Mal Equilibrium   This exists when group members become so comfortable with one another, they avoid challenging each other's defenses.  
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Group Polarization   The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.  
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Maintenance Role   Relationship-related role consisting of behavior that fosters constructive relationships among team members.  
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Group Task Role   Role that help the group focus more specifically on achieving its goals.  
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Facilitator   This type of role coordinates teams and makes sure that everything works well  
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Gatekeeper   This type of role ensures the group stays on track.  
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Conciliator   This type of role smooths out conflicts.  
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Neutralizer   This type of role offers thinking solutions.  
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Observer   This type of role likes to sum up what is happening.  
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Follower   This type of role helps things along by their agreement.  
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Initiator   This type of role brings up the idea or identifies a need.  
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Coordinator   This type of role shows relationships among ideas.  
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Elaborator   This type of role expands on suggestions.  
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Evaluator   This type of role critically questions the course of action being taken.  
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Group Factors   Setting, group size, format, duration, frequency, involuntary or required participation, and developmental stage are all..........  
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Play Favorites   One of the MOST important things a group leader should remember is to NEVER..........  
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Limited and Constructive   According to Yalom's idea of being transparent in a group, transparency should be....  
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