Leadership Techniques in Group Therapy with Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

The relationship of leadership technique and anxiety level in group therapy with chronic schizophrenics.

“…These results are consistent with the findings of Elms (1964) and Deane (1969) who found that the greatest arousal occurs in anticipation of a stimulus. This concurs with the Jensen & McGrew (1974) study which also found that patients had higher physiological arousal in anticipation of the groups.…”

“…The literature has indicated that group therapy produces anxiety and furthermore that particular styles of leadership, especially nondirective ones, may produce excessive anxiety for the chronic schizophrenic population. It has been suggested that therapists modify leadership styles and adapt methods to the needs of the population within the group (Jensen & McGrew, 1974).…”

“…The group interaction was guided by the therover a period of four weeks. The sessions were apists in the structured group as outlined by led by a professional staff member of the day McGrew & Jensen (1972, 1974 and exemplitreatment program and two psychology doc-fied below. The process of the interaction was toral student cotherapists.…”

The interpersonal model.

“…Although these structural elements are particularly crucial to the agenda model that Yalom (1983) recommended for high-functioning inpatients, most studies have examined the effects of structure on the group behaviors of low-functioning inpatients. A number of studies on inpatient samples (e.g., Goldstein, 1971;Gruen, 1977;Jensen & McGrew, 1974) show that particularly with disturbed patients, a high level of structure promotes positive interactions among members. Other studies (e.g., Bednar, Melnick, & Kaul, 1974;Kinder & Kilmann, 1976) suggest that a high level of structure is most appropriate for a group in the earliest phase of development, in which an open-ended inpatient group with rapidly changing membership is likely to reside most of the time.…”