Group Psychotherapy of Military Offenders

Abrahams, Joseph; McCorkle, Lloyd W.

doi:10.1086/219858

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“…Group psychotherapy became increasingly popular as a treatment approach with incarcerated offenders in the 1950s because“group therapy has shown itself to be of real institutional value” (Abrahams & McCorkle, 1946, p. 464), and, currently, approximately 20% of male inmates in state correctional facilities receive group psychotherapy services (Morgan, Winterowd, & Ferrell, 1999). Unfortunately, the increased use of group psychotherapy in the past 50 years has not resulted in a parallel increase in research regarding the efficacy of its use.…”

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Group psychotherapy with incarcerated offenders: A research synthesis.

Morgan

Flora

2002

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Group psychotherapy with incarcerated offenders: A research synthesis.

Morgan

Flora

2002

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…The core of the program is constituted by the nightly sessions of guided group interaction, a special form of group therapy adapted to the rehabilitation of delinquent boys originally devised by J. Abrahams, a psychiatrist. and Lloyd W. McCorkle, a sociologist (1). The purpose of the guided group interaction sessions is to stimulate the boys in a group situation to analyze the causes of their delinquent behavior.…”

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Economic, cultural, and social factors in family breakdown.

Burgess¹

1954

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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HE public is greatly concerned with family breakdown. I t is disturbed T. at the rising divorce rate. It is alarmed at reports of the increasing rate .of juvenile delinquency. It is disposed to hold parents responsible for the delinquency of children and to blame the parents of young couples if their marriage disintegrates. It advocates legislation to punish parents for their children's delinquency.This interdisciplinary organization, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, was founded to discover the causes of human behavior and to apply this knowledge in prevention and rehabilitation. Its members do not think of family breakdown in terms of assessing blame and punishment. By their training and experience they are looking for causative factors in the individual and in the community and for the best methods for the prevention and treatment of family breakdown. This paper will discuss three factors in family breakdown: the economic, the cultural, and the social.No one can doubt that economic factors are related to family breakdown.The studies by Bradley Buell and his associates give eloquent proof of this relationship. Rates of nonsupport, desertion, divorce, mental disorder, infant mortality, and juvenile delinquency are highest in neighborhoods of the lowest income and of the worst housing.But what is the nature of the relation between economic privation and family breakdown? It is seldom, if ever, direct. If it were, all families in poverty would experience family breakdown. Every social worker knows that this result does not follow. Studies show that well-integrated flexible families withstood our last depression where unintegrated unadaptable families failed to adjust (2, 3). Family breakdown results directly, as Dr. Lippman has emphasized, from the strains and conflicts in the interpersonal relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children.

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“…After a stay in the processing area (Pre-Honor Area) of three months, a decision as to restorability was made. 1 Some inmates, present in increasing numbers, were found to be non-restorable on admission because of gross personality disorders-homosexuals, mental defectives, and prisoners with marked psychopathology. However, the practice of the Center was to give most of the men the opportunity of a try for restoration in the Pre-Honor Area.…”

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