Question

Which nursing and counseling theories are significant in group and family psychotherapy?

Answer 1

Nursing theories significant in group and family pychotherapy are:

Phil Barker

• Barker’s Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery is widely used in mental health nursing.
• Focuses on the fundamental care processes of nursing, is universally applicable, and is a practical guide for psychiatry and mental health nursing.

Katharine Kolcaba

• Theory of Comfort.

• Kristen M. Swanson

  • Theory of Caring.

  Cornelia M. Ruland and Shirley M. Moore

  • Peaceful End-of-Life Theory
  • The focus was not on death itself, but on providing a peaceful and meaningful living in the time that remained for patients and their significant others.

Counselling theories significant in group and family pychotherapy are:

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Adlerian Theory.
Behavioral Approaches.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Computer Assisted Therapy.
Existential Humanistic Tradition.
Integrative Theory.
Multicultural Counseling.
Object Relations Theory.

Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one
or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group. The term can
refer to any form of psychotherapy when delivered in a group format, including
cognitive behavioural therapy or interpersonal therapy but it is usually applied
to psychodynamic group therapy where the group context and group process is
explicitly utilised as a mechanism of change by developing, exploring and
examining interpersonal relationships within the group.

There are various types of group therapy; approaches include behaviour therapy,
psychoanalytic therapy, sensitivity training, or Gestalt psychology.

Behavioural family therapy views interactions within the family as a set of
behaviours that are either rewarded or punished. The behavioural therapist
educates family members to respond to each others’ behaviour with positive or
negative reinforcement. A child might be discouraged from repeating a negative
behaviour, for example, by losing some privileges or receiving a “time-out.”
Positive behaviour might be rewarded with the use of an incentive chart on which
points or stickers are accrued and eventually exchanged for a reward. Behavioural
approaches sometimes involve the drawing up of behavioural “contracts” by
family members, as well as the establishment of rules and reinforcement
procedures.