How Do Group Meetings Make a Community Therapeutic?.

Pinney, Edward L.

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ERIC Number: EJ197679

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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How Do Group Meetings Make a Community Therapeutic?

Pinney, Edward L.

Group: The Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, v3 n1 p55-59 Spr 1979

Describes an abrupt shift from a therapeutic community emphasizing group meetings to a hierarchical medical model on a mental hospital floor. Analyzes the contrast between the two models, compared with the subsequent restoration of the therapeutic community. Clarifies some mechanisms by which groups positively affect disturbed patients. (BP)

Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Therapy, Hospital Personnel, Nurses, Psychiatric Hospitals, Therapeutic Environment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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