A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Task-Oriented Groups of Severely III Patients (original) (raw)
1984
This paper presents a conceptual approach for leading various types of groups of chronically mentally ill patients. Although these groups may have a concrete, task-oriented purpose, with skillful leadership they also function as psychotherapy groups. The developmental deficits in ego functions, object relations, and social skills that severely impair such groups can be compensated by non-interpretative actions of the therapists. The group leader must actively work to provide for the structure, stability, and safety of the group when group members are unable to provide these for themselves. Groups of various kinds have become a vital element in the comprehensive treatment of severely ill psychiatric patients, both within hospitals and in community settings [ 1-2]. Such groups have the potential of supplying precisely the sort of human contact which is so tragically missing from the lives of these patients [3-5]. Although such groups may meet expressly for psychotherapy, more often gr...
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