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The theory and practice of group psychotherapy
01 Jan 1970-
TL;DR: Yalom as mentioned in this paper described the course of therapy from both the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint in Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and Every Day gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974).
Abstract: This book first appeared in 1970 and has gone into two further editions, one in 1975 and this one in 1985. Yalom is also the author of Existential Psychotherapy (1980), In-patient Group Psychotherapy (1983), the co-author with Lieberman of Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and with Elkin of Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974) (which recounts the course of therapy from the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint). The present book is the central work of the set and seems to me the most substantial. It is also one of the most readable of his works because of its straightforward style and the liberal use of clinical examples.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe critical issues in adapting traditional group-treatment methods for working with individuals with reduced cognitive capacity secondary to acquired brain injury, and delineate the cognitive and interpersonal capabilities that differentiate group-participation capacity.
Abstract: The current article describes critical issues in adapting traditional group-treatment methods for working with individuals with reduced cognitive capacity secondary to acquired brain injury. Using the classification system based on functional ability developed at the NYU Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (RIRM), we delineate the cognitive and interpersonal capabilities that differentiate group-participation capacity. An overview of the RIRM interventional process, including strategies of change (cognitive remediation versus psychosocial groups), is provided. Empirical support for the RIRM method of group assignment and treatment outcomes for our model is also referenced.
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...Like the cognitive remediation groups, psychosocial groups offer the opportunity for instillation of hope, imparting of information, and imitative behavior, but with an emphasis on psychosocial behavior (Yalom & Leszcz, 2005 )....
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01 Mar 1981
TL;DR: An experiential approach to pre-group preparation and screening expands upon the more familiar cognitive approaches and allows both therapist and patient a “trial run” of group psychotherapy.
Abstract: This article describes an experiential approach to pre-group preparation and screening. The technique is described in some detail, as is the underlying rationale. The authors believe that such an approach to pre-group preparation and screening expands upon the more familiar cognitive approaches and allows both therapist and patient a “trial run” of group psychotherapy.
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TL;DR: The authors found that students who completed training first (nondelay) had higher self-efficacy post-training than those in a delay condition before they had training and cultural background played a role in learning and using immediacy.
Abstract: After they had learned exploration skills, 132 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of immediacy. After training, students increased in self-efficacy for using immediacy, and catharsis and cohesion increased among lab group members. Students who completed training first (nondelay) had higher self-efficacy post-training than those in a delay condition before they had training. Self-efficacy for immediacy increased after lecture, modeling, and large-group discussion; decreased between lecture and lab; and increased after lab practice. Qualitative results indicated that practice was the most helpful component. Students with the highest initial self-efficacy and prior helping experience (PHE) had the highest post-training self-efficacy, whereas those with the lowest self-efficacy or the highest PHEs had the greatest self-efficacy increases. In addition, cultural background played a role in learning and using immediacy.
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TL;DR: The authors presented a model for long-term group therapy of sexual addiction that they have used in private practice, and conclude by giving an excerpt from a group therapy session, and concluded that group therapy provides a laboratory in which clients can enter into relationship to help manage addictive behaviors, explore the dynamics of their addictive process, and develop intimate bonds with others.
Abstract: Several theorists and researchers have noted that group therapy is a viable treatment option for sexual addiction. There has been little effort, however, to explain the theoretical rationale of group therapy and show how group therapy works to treat sexual addiction. Long-term group therapy provides a laboratory in which clients can enter into relationship to (a) help manage addictive behaviors, (b) explore the dynamics of their addictive process, and (c) develop intimate bonds with others. We present a model for long-term group therapy of sexual addiction that we have used in private practice, and conclude by giving an excerpt from a group therapy session.
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...Based on this conceptualization of sexual addiction, we present the long-term interpersonal therapy group (adapted from Yalom, 1985 ) as one treatment option for sexual addiction....
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TL;DR: Hierarchical linear modeling revealed a statistically significant effect of group membership in a group smoking cessation intervention on smoking behavior and attendance at the sessions and smoking behavior during the 11-day period.
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