Group, Family, and Community Therapy Flashcards

psychology

270126950	Key Factors in Group Therapy	1. Hope 2. Universality 3. Information 4. Social Support 5. Development of Social Skills 6. Interpersonal Learning 7. Group Comprehensiveness
270126951	Traditional Groups vs. Peer Self-Help Groups	Peer self-help groups (e.g. AA) work to resolve problems without the assistance of a mental health professional; in order to be a member, on emus have the problem
270126952	Family Therapies	Strategic (focus is on changing communication patterns) versus structural therapy (focus is on changing family values)
270126953	Marital Therapy	focuses on changing maladaptive interaction patterns between couples (e.g. "caring days", decreasing maladaptive cognitions); importance of mutual involvement in treatment.
270126954	Primary Prevention	preventing mental disorders from developing in the first place 1. create environments that are conductive to mental health 2. make individuals strong enough to avoid risk factors 3. teach skills to people that allow them to cope with risk factors 4. designed to impact on entire population
270126955	Secondary Prevention	focuses on reducing risk for mental disorder in individuals who are most likely to develop that disorder 1. high risk populations must be identified 2. an intervention is applied 3. universal, selective, and indicative preventative interventions 4. mental health promotion can be thought of as enhancement of individuals well-being
270126956	Tertiary Prevention	focuses on facilitating the readjustment of the individual to community life after hospital treatment for a mental disorder
270126957	Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness	1. mentally healthy person functions well physically, socially, and spiritually 2. purpose of mental health promotion is to enhance competence, self-esteem, resilience, and sense of well-being rather than to prevent mental disorder
270126958	Efficacy of these programs is unknown	1. many aspects of these programs do not fall into category of prevention 2. some programs may be harmful