Technique Of Group Psychotherapy Research Articles

Perception and attitude of health care professionals about mentally ill patients

Objective: To study the knowledge of mental illness and assess the perception and attitude of health care professionals towards mentally ill patients using a questionnaire. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted by department of Pharmacology, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College attached to Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research from April to May 2016. The protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. After obtaining written informed consent a predesigned, validated questionnaire was used to assess the attitude and knowledge of Health Care Professionals towards mental illness. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics. Results: Out of 303 approached 287 gave consent to participate in the study. There were 170 male (59.2%) and 117 female (40.8%) participants. Regarding knowledge and attitude towards mentally ill patients 83.96% agreed that psychological counselling can help the patients to return to their normal life. Only 31.3% strongly agreed to have the knowledge to use talking therapy techniques and most of them (43.9%) were of the opinion that they require training course to find out which type of talking therapy is required clinically. They also disagreed to possess sufficient knowledge regarding group psychotherapy (41.11%) as well steps and techniques of group psychotherapy (42.50%). Conclusion: In the present study the health care professionals expressed to have knowledge regarding the techniques and skills used in counselling and psychotherapy but were lacking clinical experience in executing them. Keywords: Health care professionals, Mentally ill patients, Knowledge, Attitude.

Experimental intervention program in psychosomatic pathology

IntroductionThe work of Bion, developing the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Klein on the origins of anxiety in childhood, includes the hypothesis of a protomental system as a matrix in the human organism in which physical and mental are at first undifferentiated. He defends that the continuing experience by the infant of parental containment of its anxieties, through a process of projection and introjection, develops its capacity for thinking about frustration rather than evading it. This conception was extended to psychosomatic illness, by the hypothesis that, without this experience, frustration may lead to basic assumption mentality and psychosomatic illness rather than emotions and thought.ObjectivesThis work aims to describe an experimental technique of group psychotherapy, inspired in Bion's principles combined with relaxation techniques, in the context of psychosomatic diseases.AimsThe authors pretend to identify improvement in clinical symptomatology, quality of life, identification and expression of emotions, in the group submitted to this method, compared to controls.MethodsIt was performed a weekly group psychotherapeutic session and a weekly relaxation session (using Jacobson's method), along two months. The patients were randomly selected and submitted to psychological evaluation with scales and questionnaires, in the beginning and at the end of the study.ResultsAt the time of submission of this work, the results of the intervention were in analysis.ConclusionsThis paper describes an experimental method of psychotherapeutic intervention in the field of psychosomatic disease, using a transdisciplinary perspective.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

ISSUE OF THE INTERCULTURAL DIALOG IN THE MODERN FUNCTIONING OF ETHNOMEDICAL PRACTICES OF THE UPPER AMAZON POPULATIONS

Since the late XX - early XXI century social anthropologists in the Amazon Basin have been increasingly focusing not only on the functioning of ethnomedicine in the indigenous cultures as such but also on the transformations of healing traditions. Caused by intercultural contacts, these transformations have intensified in the course of the above-mentioned period and have been associated with formation of large number of neo-shamanic centers practicing ceremonies with plant hallucinogens and oriented mostly towards ethno-tourists from the industrialized Western countries. The author uses her field research data collected in the neo-shamanic centers that combine healing techniques and therapeutic approaches of ethnomedical traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Basin indigenous populations with modern Western biomedicine and psychotherapy techniques. The article presents comparative analysis of the neo-shamanic practices at healing centers and traditional shamanic (curanderos’) practices in the Amazon Basin. A number of innovations in those activities that facilitate patient-healer mutual understanding and create conditions for therapeutic effects are pointed out. These innovations include participation of certified Western physicians and psychologists in the diagnostics and counseling of patients and use of Western group psychotherapy techniques elements by neo-shamans - in particular, a larger share of verbal communication in comparison with traditional healing practices. The author’s research substantiates the notion that efficient patient-healer contacts are based on mastering worldview elements of the communication partner by both interaction parties as well as on interpretation by intermediaries representing Western culture who are initiated into the Amazon curanderismo tradition.

Psychotherapeutic strategies for coping with HIV infection.

Psychotherapy promotes adaptation to the medical, neuropsychiatric, and psychosocial challenges faced by people with HIV infection. This chapter describes a range of individual and group psychotherapy techniques with demonstrated efficacy in this population.

UNIVERSITY‐BASED TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC ELDERLY—HOW EFFECTIVE?

A psychosocial educational rehabilitation model coupled with more traditional individual and group psychotherapy services is used by a university‐based treatment program in Florida. The unique advantage of including such a model as part of a professional school in psychology is that it provides (a) a wide range of clinical services, (b) training opportunities, (c) avenues for applied research, (d) interaction between staff/students and faculty, and (e) an environment of growth and development. Preliminary examination of discharge data resulting from this model indicates a high rate of successful community adjustment and decline in psychiatric hospital readmission. The educational and training programs for psychologists in the area of clinical gerontology include one‐to‐one supervision; exposure to individual and group psychotherapy techniques; inter‐disciplinary treatment team planning; and personality, cognitive, and neuropsychological assessment.

Psychodynamically based approaches to emotional disturbance

The article outlines the purposes and major characteristics of individual and group psychotherapy techniques which have been specifically adapted for children. Principles of art, dance, music, play, drama, and family therapy are introduced as distinct from “ordinary” therapy. In general, each of the therapies is discussed as a procedure to assist mentally handicapped individuals to recognize and cope better with feelings, to promote a more positive self-concept, and to develop more functionally efficient behaviors. Psychodynamic principles and applications to help children develop intrapersonal and iterpersonal skills are summarized. These include: therapeutic communication models, such as Transactional Analysis and Parent Effectiveness Training; principles of milieu therapy and behavior management, such as the Life Space Interview and crisis intervention techniques; and psychoeducational models, such as the Magic Circle, Self-Control Curriculum, and Values Clarification.

Reminiscing as a technique in the group psychotherapy of depression: A comparative study

Reminiscing as a technique of group psychotherapy for severely depressed hospitalized patients was found by patients and staff to be more efficacious than the traditional reflective non-directive group psychotherapy approach. The therapeutic potential of reminiscing in combatting depressed mood was supported by the present findings. The suitability of reminiscing to the difficult task of handling groups of severely depressed hospitalized patients was demonstrated.

"By the crowd they have been broken, by the crowd they shall be healed": the advent of group psychotherapy.

Group therapy literature can be traced back to 1906 and the work of John Hersey Pratt with tuberculosis patients. Early efforts often represented a psychoeducational approach wherein patients were grouped and taught effective medical and mental hygiene. As the practice of treating emotional and mental problems in the group format gained in popularity, a theory and technique of group psychotherapy, with distinct psychoanalytic influences, began to develop and mature.Over its first quarter century, pioneers in the group approach wrote about the purposes and possibilities of collective therapy, with special attention toward: (1) theoretical variables such as curative factors and therapy goals; (2) the basic logistics of practice including optimum group size, composition, membership criteria and the length, frequency, and structure of meetings; and (3) technical considerations such as the role of the therapist and the process of the group. This paper reviews the written works of the inventors and innovators of group therapy over its first quarter century, with a glance toward the group psychotherapy trends of the 1930s and early 1940s.

Group psychotherapy with multiple personality patients.

Group psychotherapy with multiple personality patients is an infrequently utilized technique. In a homogeneous group composed of multiple personality patients, the technique of group psychotherapy is examined in detail. The group setting, selection of patients, and group composition are described. Therapeutic issues involving group process, intrapersonal dynamics, transference, countertransference, co-therapy, and termination are examined. Finally, psychotherapy with the group of multiple personality patients is contrasted with group psychotherapy with borderline patients and incest victims.

Technique in group psychotherapy of narcissistic and borderline patients.

Technique in group psychotherapy of narcissistic and borderline patients.

Some implications of variations in techniques of group therapy for social controls.

Variations in techniques of group psychotherapy are related to the clients' ego strength. Clients with developmental or pathological ego deficit have different needs for social controls than those with good ego endowment. This paper illustrates differential use of such controls in three areas. 1. Constacy of the treatment milieu as a frame of reference: For patients with good ego endowment, time and place of group meetings should be kept constant to allow them to look inwards and permit experience of feelings hitherto avoided. A patient is described who, following a break-through of feelings in the group, attempted to disrupt the therapy by usurping control over time and place of sessions. Holding time and place of group meetings constant allows patients with ego deficit to anticipate events and helps them build additional controls over impulses. Responses of borderline patients to changes in the treatment milieu are described. 2. Control of group interactions: Matching group members for ego strength is considered essential. Clinical vignettes illustrate contrasts in group interactions considered therapeutic for patients with ego deficit and those with good ego endowment. Techniques for the first group include ritualising the group process, emphasis on reality rather than fantasy and dilution of inter-patient rapport; techniques that aid patients with good ego endowment to relinquish pathological controls include support of basic questions concerning the individual's identity, free flow of fantasy, tolerance of tension, silences or strong ventilation of affect and facilitating observations from patients concerning the process of interaction. 3. Relationship to the leader: For patients with developmental or pathological ego deficit, it is essential that the therapist be ready to set limits and lend defences when the patient's controls fail. Patients with good ego endowment often have too much control. It follows that the therapist will intervene, clarify and provide structure in the first group much more frequently than in groups for psychoneurotics. For patients with ego deficit the relation to the therapist may have to be moderated lest it further weaken ego boundaries. Such patients often need personal distance. Transference to the institution, to the treatment milieu and to the group as a concrete object provides these patients with a natural means of distancing relationships. The therapist should attempt to fit into this series. He should be highly visible in the benign exercise of his professional function. Rapport should be kept stable and primarily positive even after termination of treatment. In contrast, groups of patients with good ego endowment may relate to the therapist more intensively if he is less visible. These patients, unless they can move back and forth between positive and negative rapport, can hardly be said to be working. They will often attempt to control rapport with the therapist by splitting the transference...

Psychotherapy in a large open family group.

A technique of psychotherapy is reported, using a large open group of theoretically unlimited lifetime. Family and friends are encouraged to attend and new members are added independently of those leaving the group. Various features of such a group are comparable to small group analysis. The group may be used for the exploration and treatment of family psychopathology. Meetings containing 20 or more members, with several families being represented, are not uncommon. Observers likewise are not limited in number and the group serves a useful teaching and training function as a consequence. A wide range of patients, including those regarded as unsuitable or too difficult for conventional psychotherapeutic management, may be treated by this technique. Illustrative cases are described. The purpose of this paper is to describe a technique of group psychotherapy which has been practised over a period of several years and which differs in some important respects from established methods. This technique, the large open family group, has proven itself to be useful in treating a wide range of patients.

How to creat an effective personality

Industrial psychologist William Schlackman describes how he has applied the techniques of group psychotherapy to improve management behavioural patterns

Structured interaction: a new technique in group psychotherapy.

Structured interaction: a new technique in group psychotherapy.

Group psychotherapy techniques.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ArticleNo AccessGroup Psychotherapy TechniquesHANS A. ILLINGHANS A. ILLINGSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.1.105AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail "Group Psychotherapy Techniques." American Journal of Psychiatry, 127(1), pp. 105–106 Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 127Issue 1 July 1970Pages 105-106 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 July 1970

Correctional treatment of the sexual deviate.

Correctional work with sex offenders is complicated by confusing statutory definitions, uncertainties about diagnosis, problems in motivation for treatment, and many other factors. After evaluating these difficulties and the resources available to overcome them, the author concludes that this group of offenders is most effectively treated in a hospital rather than a correctional setting, using the technique of group psychotherapy.

The Marbles test. A test for small groups.

THE STUDY of small groups has lately grown in importance for psychiatry. Group psychotherapy techniques have proved to be one of the most rewarding tools for the treatment of mental diseases. The therapeutic community has even modified the structure of psychiatric hospitals. The study of the family as a group is one of the most promising fields in the investigation of schizophrenia pathogenesis. All this leads to the search for objective methods to study the multiple variables present in group phenomena. With this in mind, we have devised a Marbles Test 1-5 designed for the study of various kinds of small groups. As only a small amount of verbalization is needed, it can be used with

Experimental Techniques in Group Psychotherapy with Delinquents

Jacob Chwast is Director of the Consultation Service of the Educational Alliance. He has served as a consultant to the Mayor's Committee on Auxiliary Services to the Courts of New York City, the Intergroup Relations Project of the Research Center of the New York School of Social Work, and the Community Service Society. Dr. Chwast is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society of Criminology and serves on the staffs of the Association for the Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders and the Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy. Carmi Harari is Director of Community Consultation Services, a member of the staff of the Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy, and a private practitioner in the field of psychotherapy. He formerly served as chief psychologist and research consultant of the Bureau of Mental Health Services of the Domestic Relations Court of New York City. Lloyd Delany is a practicing psychotherapist and consulting group therapist for the New York Vocational-Alcoholism Project. A former member of the faculties of Queens College and Temple University, Dr. Delany also supervised work with delinquent gangs for the New York City Youth Board and has worked with adolescent gangs in New York City and Philadelphia. Irrespective of the approach used, the treatment of delinquents is an extremely difficult-and often unsuccessful-venture. However, to the authors of this article, the technique of group psychotherapy, if properly employed, offers considerable promise in working with youngsters. Their paper first surveys the vexing problems which arise in dealing with delinquents and then describes a number of specific techniques and treatment adjuncts which the authors have found to be successful on an experimental basis.-EDITOR.

Dynamics and Techniques of Group Psychotherapy in Private Practice

Dynamics and Techniques of Group Psychotherapy in Private Practice

The relative roles of individual psychotherapy and group psychotherapy in the industrial neurosis unit.

The Industrial Neurosis Unit of Belmont Hospital has one hundred beds, two-thirds of which are occupied by males. The vast majority of the patients are chronic psycho-neurotics and psychopathic personalities, who show poor social adjustment. The material treated here is what is usually labelled as “hopeless.” Letters from Out-Patient Departments, seeking admission are prefaced, “We know this is a hopeless case …,” or “If you cannot help him then there is no hope for him …,” etc. During the four years of its existence the Industrial Unit has evolved and practised a variety of techniques of group psycho-therapy, in addition to the orthodox psychological and physical treatments available in modern psychiatric hospitals. More and more importance is being attached to the value of group methods here, to the extent that some doctors, after taking a brief history, thereafter employ group-therapy exclusively. This paper is an attempt to discuss the relative values and roles of therapy carried out at individual and group levels in the Industrial Unit.