Sequential cotherapy of groups for training and clinical care

Rutan, J. Scott; Alonso, Anne

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“…Such sequences are common at advanced levels of training in psychiatry, clinical psychology, and social work (Rutan & Alonso, 1980). In addition to training in group therapy, the supervision format provides for the trainee opportunities for critical experiences in professional role development and in understanding the effects of individual psychopathology in a social matrix.…”

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Cotherapy in psychodynamic group psychotherapy: An approach to training

Alpher

Kobos

1988

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Cotherapy in a training relationship with a senior therapist~supervisor and a trainee~junior leader is presented. A structured training year with planned sessions for the junior leader to lead the group alone, as well as intensive supervision, is described. The training relationship is seen as evolving into an egalitarian, collegial working relationship. An incidental benefit of this cotherapy approach is that additional opportunities are provided for group members to work through attitudes, feelings, and behaviors associated with attachment, interpersonal relationship (autonomy and affiliation), separation, and loss. Potential drawbacks and applications are also noted.Cotherapy has evolved during the ascendance of group therapy as an acceptable mode of psychological intervention. This paper focuses on one particular approach to cotherapy, in which one senior therapist functions as the supervisor of the cotherapist. In this approach, the cotherapist is acknowledged explicity to be a trainee, although one training goal is for the cotherapy relationship to evolve into an egalitarian, collegial collaboration.

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Cotherapy in psychodynamic group psychotherapy: An approach to training

Alpher

Kobos

1988

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“…2. Co-led sequentially, that is, one led while the other observed for 10 sessions; then they reversed roles (Rutan & Alonso 1980).…”

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The junior-junior team

Rice

1995

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“…The advantages and disadvantages of single therapist/leader or two cotherapists/leaders have been discussed at length in the literature. The style of leadership is determined by the personal preference of the group psychotherapist (Napolitani, 1979; Rabin, 1967; Rutan and Alonso, 1980; Spitz and Kopp, 1957; Whiteside, 1980; Yalom, 1975). The alternating of the group leader enabled us to combine the advantages of a single therapist with those of cotherapy, while at the same time avoiding certain drawbacks.…”

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A model combining two psychotherapeutic approaches in group psychotherapy.

Kastner¹,

Neumann²

1986

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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Professional literature has demonstrated that both Gestalt therapy and psychoanalytically oriented therapy, when exclusively employed in groups, face problems such as dropping out, resistance, regression, and so on. This article propounds a multidimensional model which combines both of these approaches. The model reduced the aforementioned problems by introducing the concept of alternating methods of group leadership in addition to alternating the group therapists.Group psychotherapy has long been established as a competent method of treatment. Over the years, however, some difficulties and problems have arisen. According to the literature, dropping out happens quite often during the early stages of the therapy (Yalom, 1975). In our own experience, we found this indeed to be a problem. One author (M. C.) a Gestalt therapist, has found that not all patients are willing or able to work within his direct and exposing method and consequently the other author (M. N.) has found that in psychoanalytically oriented groups, dropping out is generally due to feelings of rejection, inability to share with other patients, and a dearth of therapeutic impact.Not all patients can benefit from the Gestalt method; some feel that, besides the emotional experience, they need an additional dimension of understanding and insight. On the other hand, patients participating in psychoanalytically oriented groups often intellectualize and are left with few emotional experiences to cause intrapsychic Reprints may be ordered from M. Kastner,

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Sequential cotherapy of groups for training and clinical care

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Cotherapy in psychodynamic group psychotherapy: An approach to training

Cotherapy in psychodynamic group psychotherapy: An approach to training

The junior-junior team

A model combining two psychotherapeutic approaches in group psychotherapy.

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