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Working in the Here & Now

This guide explores the essential principles of "working in the here and now" within group therapy settings. By prioritizing immediate interactions and emotional expressivity, counselors can help members navigate their present experiences while fostering self-awareness and interpersonal processes. The text outlines vital norms, the significance of emotional expressivity, and the role of social dynamics in shaping group behavior. It emphasizes the importance of self-monitoring, processing commentary, and personal responsibility in transforming one’s behavior and fostering meaningful change.

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Working in the Here & Now

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  1. Working in the Here & Now • 2Tiers • Experiencing: Ahistoric, The immediate events in the meeting take precedence over events both in the current outside life & in the distant past of the members, emergance of the social microcosm • Counselors Task: Steer group into the here & now; group norms

  2. Activating the Here and Now • Norms • Interpersonal Confrontation • Emotional Expresivity • Self-Monitoring • Group as Source of Information • Reinforce Here & Now

  3. Working in the Here & Now • 2 Tiers • Illumination of the Process: A Self-Reflective Loop, examines the here-&- now behavior that has just occurred • Counselors Task: Process Commentary • Observer-Participant • Group Historian • Ask others to do things, but not expected to work

  4. Process vs. Content • Process: Nature of the relationship between interacting individuals • “How” & “Why”: Illuminate aspects of the person’s relationship to other people • Content:The explicit words spoken, the substantive issues, the arguments advanced • “What”

  5. Insight Levels • Behavior Awareness: What • Patterns of Behavior: What-Who-When • Interpersonal Process • Motivation: Why • Genetic: How

  6. Social Taboo’s to Process Commentary in Social Discourse • Socialization Anxiety: Critical & Control • Social Norms: Permits Social Order • Fear of Retaliation: Close monitor=Danger • Power Maintenance: Authority Structure

  7. Process Commentary Overview • Here is what your behavior is • Here is how your behavior makes others feel • Here is how your behavior influences the opinions of others • Here is how your behavior influences your opinion of yourself

  8. Process Commentary Overview • Are you satisfied with the world you created? • If no, exercise your will to change:transform intention to action

  9. Guide Client to Accept • Only I can change the world I have created for myself; Responsibility-won’t not can’t • There is no danger in change;As if nature in group-no catastrophe • To attain what I want, I must change • Primary Task vs. Secondary Gratification • I can change, I am potent

  10. Therapeutic Factors • Initial Phase • Hope • Universality • Altruism • Imitative Behavior • Imparting Information

  11. Therapeutic Factors • Middle Phase • Cohesion • Catharsis • Interpersonal Learning

  12. Therapeutic Factors • Final Phase • Cohesion • Existential

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