Expanding the Application of Group Interventions: Emergence of Groups in Health Care Settings

How do Small Groups Promote Behaviour Change? An Integrative Conceptual Review of Explanatory Mechanisms

“…Some of these were especially influential to the development of this conceptual review because they reviewed or theorised a range of potentially important group processes; for example, Levine and Moreland (1990), Horne and Rosenthal (1997), Association for Specialists in Group Work (2000), Furr (2000), McGrath, Arrow, and Berdahl (2000), Murphy and Johnson (2006), Hoddinott, Allan, Avenell, and Britten (2010), Drum, Becker, andHess (2011), McCarthy andHart (2011), and book chapters by Burlingame, Fuhriman, and Johnson (2004) and Forsyth and Burnette (2005). Many other articles shaped our review and are referenced below and/or in the Supplementary Document (available online).…”

Participant evaluation of an inpatient occupational therapy groups programme in brain injury rehabilitation

“…The need to demonstrate cost-effectiveness and efficient resource management has led to the increasing use of group-based interventions in health care (Drum, Swanbrow Becker & Hess, 2011;McCarthy & Hart, 2011). The intensity of rehabilitation for patients can be maximised through the delivery of therapy in groups (Bertisch, Rath, Langenbahn, Sherr & Diller, 2011).…”

“…Consumer engagement is widely accepted as an important component of health service development, improvement and ongoing management (McCarthy & Hart, 2011). Therefore, interventions including group-based interventions should be informed by high quality research and consumer feedback (Drum et al, 2011;McCarthy & Hart, 2011). This paper examines the use of group-based occupational therapy interventions in brain injury rehabilitation.…”

Coping and Regulating Emotions: A Pilot Study of a Modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group Delivered in a College Counseling Service

“…5,15,16 Group therapy also appears efficacious for BPD and involves less staff, suggesting a more effective and financially viable option for cost-free services such as a CCS. 17,18 Further, treatment adherence is characteristically poor in people with BPD for reasons including cost and accessibility, 19,20 thus a CCS-based treatment program could address these factors. As such, analysis of the aforementioned characteristics culminated in the notion of offering a short-term, CCS-based, group-format treatment protocol for students with BPD.…”