Model of Care: Group Therapy

There are three stages of group development: Initial stage, working stage, and termination stage. Each stage has specific character.

Initial Stage:

• This is the first stage in which the members become acquainted with each other and search for similarity between themselves.
• Trusting communication is important in this stage.
• Structuring of group norms, roles and responsibilities are taking place in this stage.

Working Stage:

• This is the second stage in which the real work of the group is accomplished.
• Member are familiar with each other, the group leader and the group roles.
• Members feel free to approach their problems and to attempt to solve their problems.

Termination Stage:

• In this stage, the group evaluates the experience and explores member’s feeling and impending separation.
• The leader provides an opportunity for members who have difficulty with termination to learn to deal more realistically with this human experiences.

There are eight model of group therapy:

1. Psychoanalytical Group Therapy

• The therapist holds a main position and each client in the group has a relationship with the therapist.
• Communication is focused on three level, unconscious, semiconscious, and conscious information.

2. Transactional Analysis

• The three ego of individual are examined in transactional analysis groups.
• The individuals in the group will communicate from the proper ego states for the situation and the responses of other.

3. Rational Emotive Therapy

• In this method, the therapist designs activities to eliminate the irrational ideas of the members.

4. Rogerian Therapy

• This therapy helps the members express their feeling toward one another during group sessions.

5. Gestalt Therapy

• This gestalt therapy emphasizes self expression, self exploration, and self awareness in the present time, and focusing on everyday problems and try to solve them.

6. Interpersonal Group Therapy

• This therapy promotes the individual’s comfort with others in the group then transfers to other relationship.

7. Self-help or Support Group Therapy

• This therapy is based on the premise that persons who have experienced a similar problem are able to help others who have the same problem.
• It also prevents the individual member from feeling lonely and isolated.
• There are so many self-help or support groups: adult children of alcoholic, al-alon, alcoholic anonymous, co-dependent anonymous, gamblers anonymous, narcotics anonymous, over-eaters anonymous, bereavement, etc.

8. Family Therapy

• This therapy assists the family members to identify and express their thoughts and feeling, define family roles and rules, try new, more productive styles of relating and restore strength to the family.