Can we collaborate? Mistakes made when group and individual therapists ignore multiple realities.

Abstract

Often, group therapists collaborate with individual therapists in conjoint treatment. Many of these patients start in individual therapy and are referred to the group to help facilitate the treatment and address interpersonal and relational issues that either cannot or will not be addressed in the individual work. Although this has the potential to foster incredible growth for patients, it may also cause problems in treatment when collaboration between therapists falls apart. The current paper will examine mistakes made when multiple realities about a patient are ignored during the pregroup screening and preparation, and feedback from group treatment is not integrated into individual therapy. Clinical examples will be used with specific recommendations for combined treatment planning and interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record

To err is human: An introduction to the special issue on clinical errors.

“…The first section includes articles that focus on errors rooted in specific clinical and supervision processes, including examining two different decision-making models (Swift, Park, Goode, & Tompkins, 2016), failure to respond to specific clinical markers (Bugatti & Boswell, 2016), interventions outside of the zone of proximal development (TZPD; Stiles, Gabalda, & Ribeiro, 2016), therapist self-disclosure (Ziv-Beiman & Shahar, 2016), responses to client questions (Waehler & Grandy, 2016), feedback measures (Flückiger, Znoj, & Vîslă, 2016; Snyder & Aafjes-van Doorn, 2016), supervision (Zilcha-Mano & Leibovich, 2016), and countertransference (Sharma & Fowler, 2016). The second section includes articles that focus on errors within group psychotherapy, specifically: issues related to group member selection, composition, and supervision (Kealy, Ogrodniczuk, Piper, & Sierra-Hernandez, 2016; Tasca, Mcquaid, & Balfour, 2016) as well as collaboration with individual therapists (Marmarosh, 2016). The third section includes articles that focus on errors related to specific treatments, specifically errors in cognitive–behavior therapy (Olatunji, Kim, & Hollon, 2016) and functional analytic psychotherapy (Tsai, Mandell, Maitland, Kanter, & Kohlenberg, 2016).…”