Role of the Leader in Therapy Groups Conducted With Illicit Drug Abusers: How Directive Does the Leader Have to Be?

Page, Richard C.; Campbell, Linda F.; Wilder, Deborah Cohen

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1874.1994.tb00092.x

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“…Subsequent process studies of unstructured marathon groups with male illicit drug users revealed the following: Group members ranked at the 99th percentile in time spent in the most therapeutic (confrontive) work style (Page & Bridges, 1983;Page, Davis, Berkow, & O'Leary, 1989), at the 80th percentile in time spent in the most therapeutic (relationship) content style (Page & Wills, 1983), and at the 90th percentile in the two of the four most therapeutic cells (personal-confrontive and relationship-confrontive; L. Campbell & Page, 1993). Page, Campbell, and Wilder (1994) showed that illicit drug abusers can interact in therapeutic ways without relying on group leaders to direct discussions. When considered together, the outcome and the process studies conducted by Page and his associates strongly suggest that unstructured-existential marathon groups can be used as an effective form of treatment for inmate and illicit drugusing populations.…”

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Humanistic group psychotherapy.

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Lietaer³

2002

Humanistic Psychotherapies: Handbook of Research and Practice.

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There is a large amount of research in the professional literature that supports the effectiveness of humanistic group therapy. Unfortunately, the utility of humanistic group therapy with clinical populations is not widely recognized by the psychological community. This chapter describes what the research shows about the effectiveness of humanistic group therapy. We hope to demonstrate concretely the specific ways this research details how humanistic group therapy helps clients make positive behavioral and attitudinal changes. BASIC CONCEPTS OF HUMANISTIC GROUP THERAPYThe primary therapy theories that are reviewed in this chapter as humanistic theories of group therapy include person-centered (or clientcentered; CCT) group therapy, Gestalt group therapy, and existential group therapy. These theories are included under the humanistic rubric because they share common assumptions about human nature and the therapeutic processes that are central to effective psychotherapy. All of these theories emphasize that people have free will and the ability to make choices that are growth producing. These theories also stress the importance of selfawareness in therapy because it is assumed that people who are self-aware can make better choices. Person-centered, Gestalt, and existential therapies all emphasize the idea that people are capable of acting in responsible and caring ways in interpersonal relationships. All of these theories state that human beings have an innate drive toward growth that enables them to 339

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Section: Research On Existential Group Psychotherapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanistic group psychotherapy.

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2002

Humanistic Psychotherapies: Handbook of Research and Practice.

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“…The dimension that captured the greatest empirical attention in the latest process studies was that of leader behavior. Researchers have examined what the leader says (Flowers & Booraem, 1990a, 1990bKapur, 1993;Kennard, Roberts, & Winter, 1990;Nehls, 1992;Page, Campbell, & Wilder, 1994;Stinchfield & Burlingame, 1991;Voigt & Weininger, 1992), thinks about (Hines, Stockton, & Morran, 1995;Kivlighan & Quigley, 1991), and values (Hamblin, Beutler, Scogin, & Corbishley, 1993). Although methodological sophistication varied widely across these studies, they all seem committed to identifying specific in-group leader behaviors, both overt and covert, that make a difference either in terms of patient responses that immediately follow the therapist intervention (known as small " 0 " ) or ultimate outcome (i.e., big "0').…”

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Process analysis of group interaction in therapeutic groups.

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The Process of Group Psychotherapy: Systems for Analyzing Change.

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Group psychotherapy works! Armed with a growing number of metaanalytic studies, beginning with the classic work of Smith, Glass, and Miller (1980) and complemented by a recent influential national survey of consumers (Seligman, 1995), reviewers of the group psychotherapy research literature can now state with a reasonable degree of confidence that group psychotherapy yields beneficial effects when compared with no treatment and equivalent results when compared with more costly individual psychotherapy. The prototypical laboratory study in these meta-analytic reviews convincingly demonstrates that treating a small group of individuals who manifest a discrete, circumscribed, and homogeneous set of symptoms, such as those who have social phobia, trauma, or depression, in a time-limited, cognitive-behavioral format is ameliorative. Although questions have been raised about the representativeness and relevance of these studies to the way group therapy is actually practiced in the field, the experimental findings per se are uncontested.

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Group work as facilitation of spiritual development for drug and alcohol abusers

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Berkow²

1998

The Journal for Specialists in Group Work

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Role of the Leader in Therapy Groups Conducted With Illicit Drug Abusers: How Directive Does the Leader Have to Be?

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Humanistic group psychotherapy.

Humanistic group psychotherapy.

Process analysis of group interaction in therapeutic groups.

Group work as facilitation of spiritual development for drug and alcohol abusers

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