Parallel process and the forced termination of a milieu group

Schaffer, Stephen; Pollak, Jerrold

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“…According to Schaffer and Pollak (1984), parallel processes are likely to emerge: (1) at times of stress in treatment; (2) at times of client resistance; (3) at times of shared affect between client and therapist; and (4) when therapist and client share an important context. Schaffer and Pollak found these triggers towards the approach of a forced tennination of work that school staff were doing with students who had shown chronic academic difficulties.…”

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“…Here, parallel processes were abundant. Ekstein and Wallerstein (1972) have noticed the proliferation of parallel processes mainly at the beginning stages of treatment; Schaffer and Pollak (1984) found them mainly at the end. In the sex offenders' counsellors group, the parallel processes occurred in abundance throughout.…”

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“…Most of the literature deals with parallels in individual treatment and individual supervision in a range of treatment modes, including psychoanalysis (Gediman and Wolkenfeld, 1980), psychotherapy (Doeherman, 1976), social work (Kahn, 1979), and short-term intervention (Alpher, 1991), and in a rangc of supervision modes centered on the client, the process, and the therapist (Ekstein and Wallerstein, 1972;Sharon and Rubenstein, 1989). Parallel processes have also been found in family therapy (Gray, 1986); in group work (Schaffer and Pollak, 1984; and in supervision and group counselling (Delucia, Bowman and Bowman, 1978). but there is lcss study of thc processes in such situations than in onc to one settings.…”

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Parallel Processes in a Training and Supervision Group for Counsellors Working with Adolescent Sex Offenders

Etgar¹

1997

Social Work With Groups

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This paper discusses four parallel processes in a sex offenders' counsellors training and supervision group. Two of them, feelings of isolation and proclamations of boredom, were similar responses to similar stimuli: the first, to the stigma that adheres both to the sexual offense and to the professional work with the offenders, the second to anxieties that derived from a similar technique used in both groups. The other two involve the counsellors' displacement of feelings they had in and about the offenders' groups to their own training and supervisory groups. Both of these involved issuesresponsibility and self-control-that are particularly salient in work with sex offenders. The discussion suggests that parallel processes emerge with great frequency in work with sex offenders because of the stresses of the work and the issues that are highlighted in it.

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confidence: 99%