{"title":"Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organizational Consultancy","authors":"Andrew Eig","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2367575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2367575","url":null,"abstract":"Published in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141574655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peitao Zhu, Thomas Smith, Injung Lee, Timothy Schoonover
{"title":"Group Cohesion in Experiential Growth Groups: A Multilevel Growth Analysis.","authors":"Peitao Zhu, Thomas Smith, Injung Lee, Timothy Schoonover","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2365710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2365710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Group cohesion is considered a key group therapeutic factor; however, limited knowledge exists on the session-to-session development of group cohesion in the context of training groups or on the factors that may predict such developments. We utilized multilevel growth modeling to examine the longitudinal changes in 44 counselor trainees' ratings of group cohesion in seven experiential growth groups across four semesters. We found significant between-person variability in the growth trajectory of group cohesion and identified trainee self-disclosure and gender as significant predictors of group cohesion. The results indicated the complexity of within- and between-person changes in group cohesion in training groups and the need for further research to identify potential predictors of these changes. We also discussed ways for group facilitators to attend to self-disclosure as an important marker of group cohesion.</p>","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krister W Fjermestad, Frederike Naujokat, Malin Wallin, Gro Janne Wergeland
{"title":"Mediation Effects of Group Cohesion in Group-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders.","authors":"Krister W Fjermestad, Frederike Naujokat, Malin Wallin, Gro Janne Wergeland","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2365718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2365718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is limited research on group cohesion as a potential outcome facilitator in group-based cognitive-behavioral treatment (GCBT) for youth. We examined if group cohesion mediated the relation between the temperamental trait behavioral inhibition and posttreatment outcomes following GCBT for youth with anxiety disorders. The sample comprised 88 youth (M age = 11.2 years) from a randomized controlled effectiveness trial. The outcomes were posttreatment clinical severity and treatment satisfaction. Group cohesion fully mediated the relation between behavioral inhibition and posttreatment severity. Higher group cohesion was associated with lower posttreatment clinical severity. There was no significant association between behavioral inhibition and treatment satisfaction, hence no mediation. We conclude that group cohesion is a factor that can be targeted by clinicians to potentially enhance GCBT outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Marmarosh, J Nguyen, M Williams, M Flanagan, D H Rosmarin
{"title":"Members' Feedback After a Spiritual Group Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT).","authors":"C Marmarosh, J Nguyen, M Williams, M Flanagan, D H Rosmarin","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2361239","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2361239","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Six hundred and fifty-four inpatients who participated in a spiritual group therapy intervention provided qualitative feedback regarding what helped them and what could be improved. Patients revealed that enjoying a sense of connection with other people and a sense of openness in the groups and simply talking about spirituality with other people was helpful to them. Many group members requested that groups go on for a longer amount of time than 12 sessions, to have longer sessions, and to have more frequent meetings. In addition, members described improvements that could be made to the group, including members' being better screened, leaders preventing individual members from dominating discussions or from being quiet or leaving the group early, and members' wanting more structure as well as more open discussion. The findings highlight the importance of connection, openness, and spirituality when implementing spiritual group interventions in hospital settings. Implications for future research, training, and clinical interventions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvements in Quality of Life and Readiness for Change After Participating in an Eating Disorder Psychoeducation Group: A Pilot Study.","authors":"Hella Lee, Sameer Desai, You Na Choi","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2341293","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2341293","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoeducation groups are an integral part of eating disorder treatment in community programs, yet research on their efficacy remains limited. This study examines the impact of participating in a 10-week psychoeducation group on changes in quality of life and in readiness and motivation. Seventy-five adults who had eating disorders were included in the study. We administered the Eating Disorder Quality of Life Scale (EDQLS) and Readiness and Motivation Questionnaire (RMQ) before and after the group. After participation, respondents reported an 11-point increase in the EDQLS score and 9-, 8-, and 9-point increases, respectively, in the total action, confidence, and internality components of the RMQ score. In group exit evaluations, participants reported that the psychoeducation group improved their quality of life and their readiness and motivation to recover.</p>","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140899786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathaniel G Wade, Corrine M Schwarting, Haley E Williamson
{"title":"Therapeutic Groups to Help People Forgive Others: A Case Study.","authors":"Nathaniel G Wade, Corrine M Schwarting, Haley E Williamson","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2357564","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2357564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most people have been harmed by another at some point in their lives. Many of these hurts linger in the lives of those who were hurt, through anger, fear, and rumination. Forgiving others, when it is safe and prudent to do so, can be one route toward healing these past hurts. Group therapy has specific strengths that might help people to effectively forgive others. One of those strengths is the creation of therapeutic factors. In the current paper we discuss how group forgiveness interventions and the development of three specific therapeutic factors (universality, cohesion, and altruism) can help to promote forgiveness. We review prior work on forgiveness interventions in group therapy, focused on effectiveness generally. We then provide an applied case study of a specific group that used Worthington's REACH Forgiveness model. In this case study we highlight the themes of universality, cohesion, and altruism to illustrate the benefit of forgiveness interventions in group therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141447304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REACH Forgiveness: A Narrative Analysis of Group Effectiveness.","authors":"E. Worthington","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2340593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2340593","url":null,"abstract":"In this narrative review, the effectiveness of the REACH Forgiveness psychoeducational group intervention is examined. REACH is an acronym to cue memory for steps in emotional forgiveness: R = recall the hurt; E = empathize; A = altruistic gift of forgiveness; C = commit to forgiveness experienced; H = hold onto forgiveness. Overall, 24 studies that reported outcome data on REACH Forgiveness psychoeducational groups were tabulated and examined. Previous meta-analysis had found that effect size was linearly related to time spent in forgiveness intervention; thus, effect size (denoted by d, pre-post difference in means divided by pooled standard deviation) was examined per hour (i.e. d/hr) as an aid to qualitative comparisons. Overall, mean d/hr = 0.089. Those 12 REACH studies in which Worthington was a coauthor (i.e. the allegiance effect) had a d/hr of 0.093 versus 0.065 for the six in which he was not a coauthor. REACH Forgiveness with Christian samples (k = 9; d/hr = 0.107) had slightly better outcomes than did REACH Forgiveness with secular samples (k = 11; d/hr = 0.077). The effects of cultural adaptation (other than religion) were mixed. For clinical samples, only two REACH Forgiveness studies examined psychoeducational groups and two compared psychoeducation with process group therapy for forgiveness. Areas in which group psychoeducation using REACH Forgiveness was not effective (i.e. couple groups, pre-college youth) or less effective than alternatives such as do-it-yourself workbooks were identified. Best-practice standards for conducting group research on REACH Forgiveness were discussed.","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140652604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model: Providing Social Support for Homeless Students* in School Settings.","authors":"Sam Steen, Michael Sulkowski","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2338289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2338289","url":null,"abstract":"The Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model is discussed to support homeless students' unique and complex needs. The phenomenology of student homelessness is reviewed, as well as how residential and environmental instability negatively impacts students' academic and psychosocial functioning. Social support for homeless students is also discussed. Next, the ASE group model is described in detail and existing research on its application in school settings is reviewed. Implications for research and practice are provided as they may influence future efforts to support homeless students. Session examples are used to help school personnel apply the ASE model in their respective schools and communities.","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140662768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirituality, Security, Compassion, and Play: Innovative Ways Group Psychotherapy Addresses Human Suffering","authors":"Cheri Marmarosh","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2333680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2333680","url":null,"abstract":"We are surrounded by trauma, grief, pandemics, health care inequality, poverty, climate change, and social injustice, not to mention increases in suicide, depression, and loneliness. How can group ...","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140572997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura E. Captari, Elise Ji Young Choe, Sarah A. Crabtree, Steven J. Sandage, Judith A. Gerstenblith, Laura B. Stein, Kristen R. Hydinger, George Stavros
{"title":"The Development and Feasibility of a Novel Group Intervention to Support Helping Professionals in Metabolizing Suffering and Engaging Strengths: The CHRYSALIS Program","authors":"Laura E. Captari, Elise Ji Young Choe, Sarah A. Crabtree, Steven J. Sandage, Judith A. Gerstenblith, Laura B. Stein, Kristen R. Hydinger, George Stavros","doi":"10.1080/00207284.2024.2329565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2329565","url":null,"abstract":"This feasibility study reports on the development and initial evaluation of a novel online intervention for helping professionals (HPs; i.e. mental health professionals, chaplains, clergy) designed...","PeriodicalId":46441,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140572993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}