health psychology group therapy training
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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY GROUP THERAPY
Group Meeting 1 – Developing Microskills & Leading Skills Groups
GROUPS THE FOUNDATION OF SELF Our very first group is our family. Later we develop in groups of friends, school groups, religious groups and
work groups.
We learn about who we are in relationship with others. Interactions teach us how we relate to our emotional
lives, our cultural and social location, our social world, our felt experience, our beliefs, our dreams, and our
goals.
BANDURA SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
Step 1 – Action is done by a model Step 2 – Action is attended to by an
observer Step 3 – Observer is motivated to
engage in action Step 4 – Observer has skills to enact behavior
THREE CORE ASPECTS OF GROUP TREATMENT
The HowMicroskills and interventions that lead to
change
The WhyWhere you are
going e.g. theory
explaining change
The WhatLearning,
Growth and Skills
Effective Group Leadership Includes Three Core Parts…
The How Skills: These are the interventions that create change. They are techniques and tools that can be skillfully applied to move towards goals.
The What Skills: These are what you are doing and include learning through observation, growth experiences e.g. New tolerance for affect, and the skills that increase efficacy and fxning e.g. Cycle of Depression.
The Why Skills: These are the understanding of human psychology that drive your ideas of what change is, how to reach it and what you water with your attention.
THE HUMAN BRAIN The human brain is a social
experience from the beginning. It does not make sense to talk about a single human brain. There is no human brain that exists
outside of relationship with a location, others, and the
ecology of social interactions that creates it.
INTENTIONAL GROUP LEADERSHIP
Fundamentally intentional leadership is the ability to skillfully apply
interventions in a manor that reaches a treatment goal for an individual, a dyad,
a sub group or the group as a whole.
TYPES OF GROUPS
Group Treatments are on a spectrum from highly structure groups that focus mostly on skills and
psychoeducation on one end and process focused groups on the other end that focus on
change through interaction between members.
GROUP MICROSKILLS Microskills are the
skills used to impact group members in
an intentional manor. They are skills used across
theories that can be used to help
facilitate change predicted by the
theory.
CULTURAL HUMILITY Cultural humility: “ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the individual” (Hook, et. al., 2013)1. Lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-
critique (Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998)2. A desire to fix power imbalances where none ought to exist
(Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998). 3. Develop partnerships with people and groups who
advocate for others (Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998) Above pulled from: http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2013/08/cultural-humility.aspx
PRACTICING CULTURAL HUMILITY 1. Ask questions in a humble, safe manner2. Seek Self-Awareness 3. Suspend Judgment 4. Express Kindness and Compassion5. Support a Safe and Welcoming Environment6. Start Where Your Patient Is
Guidelines for Practicing Cultural Humility By – Lisa Bosen
GROUP TREATMENT TRAINING 1. The skills needed for effective group treatment can be identified
and taught in a sequenced and precise manor. 2. Intentional application of microskills starts with a clear hypothesis
of an impact of a microskill on a group member, dyad, sub-group or group as a whole and continued learning through observation of impact of intervention.
3. Intentional application of group treatment includes training on psychoeducation and skills to create the basis of change. This includes core thought skills, affect skills, mindfulness skills, and interpersonal skills.
4. Intentional application of group treatment applies theories of change to desired outcomes.
Acceptance
Skills
Change Skills