Group therapy can alleviate feelings of isolation and foster a supportive and collaborative environment for sharing difficult feelings in order to facilitate healing. For many people, being part of a group that has a shared understanding of a struggle provides a unique opportunity to gain understanding of their own experiences. As you examine one of the group therapy demonstrations from this week’s Learning Resources, consider the role and efficacy of the leader and the reasons that specific therapeutic techniques were selected. Select one of the group therapy video demonstrations from this week’s required media, identify the video you selected and address the following: What group therapy techniques were demonstrated. How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated. What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated. What did you notice that the therapist did well.  Explain something that you would have handled differently. What insight did you gain from watching the therapist handle the group therapy. Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member. How would you elicit participation in your group. What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy. What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy.

· Transcript video 3PsychotherapyNet. (2009, May 7).
 

Irvin Yalom outpatient group psychotherapy video Links to an external site.
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you

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I’m like I’m like if we could go back

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still to that question on impression two

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people have feelings people have right

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here from what they’ve seen of one

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another in the Indus in this meeting

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anybody got any thoughts about that

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well I’m a little worried about Alice

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because she’s so quiet you just sit they

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don’t have very much to say this

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afternoon yeah it takes me a long time

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to get comfortable in this kind of group

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it just seems so intense here you know

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like every word is being studied I’m

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just afraid to whatever others will

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think about me well um I saw you smiling

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earlier Alice I I felt that you were

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judging me being judgmental I didn’t get

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there I just felt she didn’t want to be

1:13

put on a spot Ellen I noticed that you

1:17

attempted to take the focus off of Alice

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during the introductory round you seem

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to be very sensitive general discomfort

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well I disagree with that I don’t

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believe that he was being sensitive to

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her I think she should have given her

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the full time to say what she had to say

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I think Alan may have actually just

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wanted more time for himself how you

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feel about that Alice let’s check that

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out it’s not true I don’t want the

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spotlight you know I’m very shy and um

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in fact when I go to parties I make it a

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point to come in late so that I could

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help the hostess clean up the glasses

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how was it for you today in group Alice

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no glasses to clean here no I actually I

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thought about being some coffee cake at

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the next meeting there may be some

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glasses

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that’s a mortgage experience Ellis

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I just interrupt you for a minute how

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long cause I think something really

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important happen here just a couple

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minutes ago I want to just focus on just

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a second I’m really interested bobbing

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in what you just said about your own gay

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experience when yo

VIDEO For Group counseling for Adolescent with Anxiety

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hi everyone hi so we put talking a lot

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in our group so far about stress and

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anxiety some ways to manage that so

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today we’re going to do a simple you

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over practice time some better are going

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some cooking skills for managing your

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stress and anxiety so I wanted to start

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by posing a question to you guys when

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you hear the word yoga what comes into

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mind and I know my concern I was again

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like different poses like Child’s Pose

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and I’ve seen downward dog before okay

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chaplains don’t worry we’re gonna

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practice both of those kre-o okay

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not a level of comes out and I think

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it’s okay Suns done here yeah yes I do

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question for you guys what do you think

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you over might help us with my anxiety

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just based on what you get once

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well we’ve kind of talked about like

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calming ourselves down before in this

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group and how to cope with when we’re

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really anxious and I hope maybe I don’t

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know but some of the poses might help

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that okay great so they might help us

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calm down a lot to do with focusing on

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our breathing yeah nervous system helps

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you any other I don’t know it it kind of

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gives me anxiety thinking about having

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to do it it sounds like it would give me

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more anxiety okay can you please tell us

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more about why what makes it seem

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anxious for your what concerns do you

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have I don’t know you’re just doing like

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really weird like noobs and positions in

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front of people and it’s just like

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really strange and like I don’t want

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people like looking amazing I’m like

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weird yeah okay yeah that would be okay

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so Cisco yeah could you answer your

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poses okay my butt in the air okay

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you’re bought in the air scoops okay

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well just remember that when we’re doing

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this practice you can always just lay

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down on your mat or sit down on your mat

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or anything that feels right to you you

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don’t you never forced to do a certain

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pose or forced to follow me all about

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what does it make sense good question

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yeah um kala hasn’t said anything yeah

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this training aid was developed to help

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address the clear gap in education and

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skills evidence in the field of

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substance misuse treatment one of the

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main ways people suffering from

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addiction problems are offered support

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is through some form of activity in

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groups however professionals who lead

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these groups all too often don’t have a

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framework to understand how best to use

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groups there is an absence of a

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theoretical model and a lack of

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understanding of what is likely to be

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helpful in a group what you see

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presented here is influenced strongly by

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the work of Ervin yalom and Phillip

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Flores who have both written extensively

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on this topic here and have gotten I

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need to point to the grade

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Jimmy could you go on please it’s my mum

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she died last year

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are you still

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it’s too careful

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there’s the have to keep I just have to

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give her a medication stop her from

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being in pain

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but used to steal them steal them just

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for for a hit

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thanks for sharing that Jimmy that’s

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pretty big stuff

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we’ve all got secrets me I’ve done stuff

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I’m not proud of it’s not just shooting

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me I was using none of my family riding

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might include me except for my granddad

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he’s the only one I had in contact with

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it’s pretty old oh you just sent me down

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to the post office to get his pension

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every week and I used to make the money

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because I need it to use it’s just money

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this is medication medication that

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actually stopped her from being in pain

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I’ve stolen for my family might not be

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the same circumstances

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I could certainly relate to the feelings

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of shame and guilt

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how did she cope to me drugs heroin meth

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just anything my addiction takes us

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brother

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Jimmy Jimmy this is really pretty to

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bring this degree Jimmy do you think you

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could let the group know what it is

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about the group today that’s allowed you

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to share this yeah but I am

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Gemma she got one revolt like real

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vulnerable like I just felt closer to

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her r

Learning Resources

· American Psychiatric Association. (2022). 

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders Links to an external site.
 (5th ed., text rev.). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

· “Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis”

· Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2020). 
Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.

· Chapter 12, “Group Therapy”

· Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. (2005). The therapeutic factors. In 

The theory and practice of group psychotherapy

 Download The theory and practice of group psychotherapy(5th ed.) (pp. 1–18). Basic Books.
Credit: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, 5th Edition by Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. Copyright 2005 by Basic Books. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books via the Copyright Clearance Center.

· Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. (2005). Interpersonal learning. In 

The theory and practice of group psychotherapy

 Download The theory and practice of group psychotherapy(5th ed.) (pp. 19–52). Basic Books.
Credit: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, 5th Edition by Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. Copyright 2005 by Basic Books. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books via the Copyright Clearance Center.

· Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. (2005). Group cohesiveness. In 
The theory and practice of group psychotherapy
 Download The theory and practice of group psychotherapy(5th ed.) (pp. 53–76). Basic Books.
Credit: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, 5th Edition by Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. Copyright 2005 by Basic Books. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books via the Copyright Clearance Center.

· Cats Cats. (2016, September 29). 

NRNP 6645 Assignment week 3

Group therapy can alleviate feelings of isolation and foster a supportive and collaborative environment for sharing difficult feelings in order to facilitate healing. For many people, being part of a group that has a shared understanding of a struggle provides a unique opportunity to gain understanding of their own experiences.

As you examine one of the group therapy demonstrations from this week’s Learning Resources, consider the role and efficacy of the leader and the reasons that specific therapeutic techniques were selected

· Select one of the group therapy video demonstrations from this week’s required media Learning Resources.

In a 3- to 4-page paper, identify the video you selected and address the following:

· What group therapy techniques were demonstrated? How well do you believe these techniques were demonstrated?

· What evidence from the literature supports the techniques demonstrated? 

· What did you notice that the therapist did well?

· Explain something that you would have handled differently.

· What is an insight that you gained from watching the therapist handle the group therapy?

· Now imagine you are leading your own group session. How would you go about handling a difficult situation with a disruptive group member? How would you elicit participation in your group? What would you anticipate finding in the different phases of group therapy? What do you see as the benefits and challenges of group therapy?  

· Support your reasoning with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources, and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Learning resources -VIDEO OPTIONS

· Cats Cats. (2016, September 29). 


Interpersonal group therapy for addiction recovery demonstration

 Links to an external site.
 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/szS31h0kMI0

· Gerber, B. (2013, November 21). 


Psychotherapy group for schizophrenia

 Links to an external site.
 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Dzus8WGqA

· Henson, B. A. (2017, April 27). 


Role play: Group counseling for adolescents with anxiety Links to an external site.


 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CF09f5S1M

· PsychotherapyNet. (2009, May 6).
 


Irvin Yalom inpatient group psychotherapy video Links to an external site.<