Notes that few people who come for group treatment know what to expect beforehand. Literature review focuses on one approach to orienting clients to group work: pregroup training and the incorporation of varying amounts of structure into earlier sessions of group. Reviews literature on research and discusses implications of research in setting…

Presents interview with H. Allan Dye, past president and active member of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Dye discusses how he became interested in the field of group work and explains his views on ethics, training, and the future of group work. (Author/NB)

Describes the use of the collaborative poem in poetry therapy groups with low functioning patients in a psychiatric unit. Shows the collaborative poem to be an effective technique in fostering group cohesion and instilling contact with reality. (SR)

Based mainly on journal literature, this compilation on training the group therapist contains 351 English-language or translated items published from 1947 through 1995. Databases searched were PsychLIT, Medline, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Psychological Abstracts. (RB)

This project provides a comprehensive overview of the research literature on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents and concludes by offering a set of 10 group therapy lesson plans for SAD that therapists can use in their practice. The overview includes a description of social anxiety disorder and highlights various theories of anxiety. The…

This brief report examines the benefits of a creative art therapy group program for outpatients suffering from psychiatric disorders. Included is a review of relevant treatment outcomes literature on the effectiveness of group art therapy. The authors describe the Creative Art Therapy Group Program offered to adult psychiatric outpatients that is…

Individually randomized treatments are often administered within a group setting. As a consequence, outcomes for treated individuals may be correlated due to provider effects, common experiences within the group, and/or informal processes of socialization. In contrast, it is often reasonable to regard outcomes for control participants as…

This study assessed the longitudinal association between clinician and patient ratings of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over the course of 2 different randomized clinical trials of veterans with chronic PTSD. One trial, the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 420 (CSP 420; N = 360) compared trauma-focused and…

Effective cognitive-behavioral therapies for insomnia have been developed over the past 2 decades, but they have not been systematically evaluated in some clinical settings. While insomnia is common among veterans with mental health problems, the availability of effective treatments is limited. We report on the group application of a…

Background: Many school-age children with language impairments are enrolled in mainstream schools and receive indirect language therapy, but there have been, to the authors' knowledge, no previous controlled studies comparing the outcomes and costs of direct and indirect intervention delivered by qualified therapists and therapy assistants, and…

School-based professionals have entered the 21st century with a heightened call to address the emotional and behavioral concerns of youth. While cognitive-behavioral therapies and psychoeducational groups have demonstrated moderate effects with children and adolescents, there is little available research to assist clinicians in refining treatments…

This paper presents eight occasions illustrating the "when" the "how" and the "why" behind therapeutic intervention in family therapy. (Author)

Author answered the criticisms of Schutz, Smith, and Rowan, an author on human potential and two social psychologists, who challenged his use of data concerning encounter groups. (RK)

Group therapy is most effective when members step back and process the interaction among group members. This understanding of the group process is often referred to as self-monitoring or metacognition because it refers to a different level of thinking. All groups of people may not have equal metacognitive ability. This study examined the…