scholarly journals Peer responses to self-disclosures in group counseling

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aija Logren ◽  
Johanna Ruusuvuori ◽  
Jaana Laitinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Group Counseling ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Peer Responses

Abstract Drawing on conversation analysis, this study examines how peers respond to each other’s self-disclosures in group counseling interaction. Responses that display sharing and recognition of the experience normalize the experience and build an alliance among group members. This way, responses bring about social support. In addition, responses can offer a different perspective on the views presented in self-disclosures. The responses endorse or challenge the claims that are made and the stance taken in the initial self-disclosure, and link the personal, individual experience to general axioms. The implicit ways of responding to a self-disclosure allow a person to participate in a conversation about intimate and potentially delicate topics without revealing private details. Through self-disclosures and responses to them, participants talk into being the ideals of health counseling and healthy lifestyle: What kind of activities are considered eligible and attainable. The relation of these practices to the institutional goal is intricate. It builds on, first, the stance taken in the self-disclosure toward the institutional goal and the sociocultural values pertaining to it, and second, the responses’ alignment with that stance and what kind of values and ideals it further evokes.

Aplikasi Art Therapy sebagai Instrumen dalam Konseling Kelompok

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
lira erwinda ◽  
Ifdil Ifdil ◽  
Elfi Churnia
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
Group Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Group Members

The implementation of group counseling will be optimal with the self-disclosure and willingness of group members to verbally dispute their personal problems. the phenomenon encountered in the implementation of group counseling, not all members of the group voluntarily convey their personal problems to be discussed. This has the potential to hinder the achievement of group counseling goals. Efforts to assist members in group counseling to have self-disclosure may use art therapy as an instrument. Art therapy is one treatment with the use of art materials / media art for self-expression and reflection for the counselee in the presence of a therapist / counselor. Art Therapy is believed to provide comfort to the counselee, because the counselee can express thoughts and feelings that can not be delivered through words freely. So it is possible to discuss and solve the problems of group members as a whole

scholarly journals The Patients' Practises Disclosing Subjective Experiences in the Psychiatric Intake Interview

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enikö Èva Savander ◽  
Jukka Hintikka ◽  
Mariel Wuolio ◽  
Anssi Peräkylä
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Local Control ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Specific Symptom ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
Intake Interview

In psychiatric diagnostic interviews, a clinician's question designed to elicit a specific symptom description is sometimes met with the patient's self-disclosure of their subjective experience. In shifting the topical focus to their subjective experiences, the patients do something more or something other than just answering the question. Using conversation analysis, we examined such sequences in diagnostic interviews in an outpatient clinic in Finland. From 10 audio-recorded diagnostic interviews, we found 45 segments where medical questions were met with patients' self-disclosures. We show four sequential trajectories that enable this shift of topic and action. There are four possible trajectories: (1) the patient first answers the medical question and the clinician acknowledges this answer, whereupon the patient shifts to a self-disclosure of their subjective experience; (2) the patient first gives the medical answer but shifts to self-disclosure without the clinician's acknowledgement of that answer; (3) the patient produces an extensive answer to the medical question and, in the course of producing this, shifts into the self-disclosure; (4) the patient does not offer a medical answer but designs the self-disclosure as if it were the answer to the medical question. We argue that in the shifts to the self-disclosure of their subjective negative experience, the patients take local control of the interaction. These shifts also embody a clash between the interactional projects of the participants. At the end of the paper, we discuss the clinical relevance of our results regarding the patient's agency and the goals of the psychiatric assessment.

The personalization model revisited: An experimental investigation of the role of five personalization-based strategies on prejudice reduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurcan Ensari ◽  
Julie Christian ◽  
Dawn Matsui Kuriyama ◽  
Norman Miller
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Prejudice Reduction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Group Memory ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Group Members

In this paper, we report findings from a series of experimental studies investigating the role of five personalization-based strategies (individuation, self-disclosure, decategorization, self–other comparison, and empathy) on prejudice reduction. As anticipated, participants who were in the self-disclosure or individuation conditions developed more favorable attitudes towards other out-group members (Study 1). In Study 2, decategorization or self–other comparison allowed group members to discover similarities between the self and members of the out-group, thereby reducing negative out-group memory. Interestingly, when we explored the processes underlying the generalization of prejudice reduction to the out-group (Study 3), we found that the affective component of personalization (i.e., empathy) emerged as a more robust predictor of prejudice reduction than self–other comparison and decategorization. In conclusion, these studies provide the first empirical evidence of the effects of the five components of personalization in reducing prejudice across different contexts and different experimental paradigms.

The Working Alliance in Group Counseling: An Exploratory Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 591-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostyslaw W. Robak ◽  
Kelsey A. Kangos ◽  
Sheila H. Chiffriller ◽  
Paul W. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Group Counseling ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Working Alliances ◽  
Experiential Training ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Group Members

The working alliance is a well-defined component of the therapeutic relationship. The present exploratory study examined the development of the working alliance within a group counseling context. The participants ( N = 50) were students in a graduate program in mental health counseling taking an experiential training course in group dynamics. Participants rated their perceptions of the working alliance at the end of each session in a time-limited training group. Group members' perceptions of their alliance with the group leader and the group as a whole were positively correlated. Outcomes of the group experience were strongly related to the perceived strength of the working alliance as early as the fourth session. Outcomes were also positively correlated with the bonding and agreement-on-goals aspects of the working alliance, but not with the group tasks aspect. The more that group members reported strong working alliances, the more they tended to report that they had self-disclosed in the group.

Revelation, Tradition, and Inspiration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald O’Collins, SJ
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
The Church

This chapter spells out the complex interrelationship between the divine self-revelation, the tradition that transmits the prophetic and apostolic experience of that revelation, and the writing of the inspired Scriptures. Primarily, revelation involves the self-disclosure of the previously and mysteriously unknown God. Secondarily, it brings the communication of hitherto unknown truths about God. Revelation is a past, foundational reality (completed with the missions of the Son and Holy Spirit), a present experience, and a future hope. Responding with faith to divine revelation, the Old Testament (prophetic) and then New Testament (apostolic) witnesses initiated the living tradition from which came the inspired Scriptures. Tradition continues to transmit, interpret, and apply the Scriptures in the life of the Church.

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