Experiential pre-group preparation and screening

Budman, Simon H.; Clifford, Mary; Bader, Lawrence J.; Bader, Beverly

doi:10.1007/bf01456512

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“…Some therapists, however, advocate more elaborate methods that attempt to provide the patients with a therapy-like experience and/or teach them about relevant concepts. Research evidence indicates that the more elaborate methods, which usually have been conducted in a group situation, can improve attendance and drop-out rates in therapy groups (Budman et al, 1981b;Piper et al, 1982). The unsettled issue for STG with regard to patient preparation is determining the provider and the elaborateness of the procedure.…”

Section: Patient Preparationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…A disadvantage involves the patients' reactions to the inevitable shift in the therapist's role (directive to interpretive, individual-centered to group-centered) as they proceed from preparation to therapy. Budman et al (1981b) advocate a 3-hour group preparation workshop. While this method provides an opportunity for an assessment of the patient's capability of working in a group, it also shares the disadvantage of requiring the patients and therapist to make a considerable transition from a preparation group to a psychoanalytically oriented therapy group.…”

Section: Patient Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychoanalytically oriented short-term groups for outpatients: Unsettled issues

McCallum

Piper

1988

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The psychoanalytic approach to short-term Increasing interest in providing short-term groups for outpatients reflects both economic and conceptual developments in the mental health field. Economic factors include an interest in providing cost-effective treatments and the growing necessity of accommodating to limits set by third-party payment sources. Conceptual factors include the idea that time pressure accelerates the pace of therapeutic work and the idea that a time limit prevents long-term dependency by the patients. Consideration of such conceptual factors suggests that shortterm group therapy may be the treatment of choice for certain types of patients, for example, patients who work better under time pressure and patients who tend to form long-term dependent relationships. Positive clinical reports have frequently described the use of short-term groups with specialized populations such as patients with deficient social skills or those with child-rearing problems. These groups have typically utilized client-centered, behavioral, or cognitive-behavioral approaches.This article will focus on the less prevalent, psychoanalytic approach to short-term group therapy (STG). The objective of this approach is to help patients solve their presenting problems by achieving insight into how their difficulties are related to unresolved intrapsychic conflicts and by initiating a process of working through that will continue beyond the treatment sessions.

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Section: Patient Preparationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Patient Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoanalytically oriented short-term groups for outpatients: Unsettled issues

McCallum

Piper

1988

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“…Practitioners have often wished that their initial assessment and selection procedures were sensitive enough to detect which patients will work hard, remain in treatment, and experience improvement. Diagnosis, personality dynamics, and more recently interpersonal behavior have been emphasized as promising predictors (Budman, 1981). Reviews of the literature have pointed out that many of the conclusions about predictor variables are based on informal clinical observations, and that even those that are based on more formal studies fail to provide the precision that is needed to serve as clinical criteria (Woods & Melnick, 1979;Yalom, 1975).…”

Section: A Study Of the Report Of Treatment Outcome In Three Long-termentioning

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Relationships between early and final reports of treatment outcome in long-term group psychotherapy

Piper

Marrache

Koenig

1986

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“…This seemed to trouble him a good deal more than the time-limited nature of the treatment. He was in a pregroup workshop (Budman, Clifford, Bader & Bader, 1981) and decided to try entering a short-term group.…”

Section: Therapeutic Change In a Short-term Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%