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Subgrouping with psychiatric inpatients in group psychotherapy: linking dependency and counterdependency.
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A model of inpatient group psychotherapy that focuses on two frequently observed patient subgroups reflecting contrasting attitudes toward authority is presented, and a three–stage group designed to help patients achieve these goals is described.Abstract:
A model of inpatient group psychotherapy that focuses on two frequently observed patient subgroups reflecting contrasting attitudes toward authority is presented. The counterdependent subgroup overly values autonomy, opposes unit restrictions, and rejects treatment. The dependent subgroup tends to accept the unit's treatment and structure but is overly passive. In this model these attitudes are addressed in order to help patients adapt to the unit and to facilitate discharge. The author describes a three-stage group designed to help patients achieve these goals.read more
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Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: Predicting Attendance and Participation
TL;DR: Whether demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to private psychiatric hospitals can be used to predict attendance and participation in psychotherapy groups is determined.
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The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic: Interactive Effects of System Justification and Power‐Distance Orientation on Radicalization against the Political System
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated how the association between system-justifying tendencies and radical intentions is moderated by individuals' orientation towards power differentials, namely their "power distance", and found that a stronger power distance orientation implies that individuals perceive power differential as a fixed feature of society, curtailing prospects for change.
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“I Need You!” Patients’ Care Dependency Patterns During Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders and Its Association with Symptom Reduction and Wish for Treatment Continuation
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined whether patients' levels of care dependency changed over time during a 9-month treatment period, and whether care dependency was related to symptom reduction and patients' wish for treatment continuation at the end of the treatment.
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates
TL;DR: Goffman’s Asylums, a key text in the development of deinstitutionalisation, anticipated and indeed predicted some of these changes in psychiatry and has become a concept that is nearly impossible to criticise.
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Paradoxes of group life: Understanding conflict, paralysis, and movement in group dynamics.
Kenwyn K. Smith,David N. Berg +1 more
TL;DR: Smith and Berg as mentioned in this paper explore the hidden dynamics that can prevent a group from functioning effectively and show how an apparently paradoxical suggestion?for example, inviting a success oriented group to risk failure, or affirming the benefits of going nowhere to a group focused on moving ahead can break action barriers, overcome conflicts, and improve group performance.