The Role of Co-Leader Attunement in Service to Healing

Group Therapy, Spaces of Sharing and Psychodrama for Patients with SMI: A Review of the Literature

“…Group Therapy, Spaces of Sharing and Psychodrama for Patients with SMI: A Review of the Literature Yiftach Ron SMI [10][11][12][13]. Unlike traditional therapy in which the structural power imbalance between the therapist and the patient could potentially perpetuate feelings of powerlessness, group therapy provides the participants with an experience of equality of status with the other participants and even with the therapist [14,15], and a sense of acceptance and belonging [16]. Dreikurs emphasized the abovementioned dimension of equality that exists in group therapy, in which individuals are valued for who they are in the group and for their selfdisclosure and honesty, and not for what they have achieved in their lives (14).…”

Empowering Through Psychodrama: A Qualitative Study at Domestic Violence Shelters

“…Unlike one-on-one therapy, in which there is only a single relationship between two people, the group is based on multiple relationships: member to group, member to member, group to leader, and leader to group (Riva et al, 2004 ; Stone, 2016 ). The interpersonal dimension—a group member's sense of acceptance and belonging; a personal allegiance and commitment to the group; and the trust, support, and compatibility felt among the group—plays a significant role in the therapeutic process that occurs in group settings (Wise and Nash, 2019 ). Rudolf Dreikurs emphasized the dimension of equality that exists in group therapy, in which individuals are valued for who they are in the group and for their self-disclosure and honesty, not for what they have achieved in their lives (Dreikurs, 1955 ; Fehr, 2003 ).…”