Interpersonal Theory and Group Therapy: Validating the Social Microcosm (original) (raw)

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2017

Abstract

This review will explore the role of attachment and interpersonal theory and therapy in group by reviewing two studies that validate concepts that are enshrined in group theory but are hitherto underresearched—the social microcosm and Tuckman’s stages of group development. Part of the reason these concepts have remained unproven has to do with the level of statistical complexity needed to analyze such multi-layered constructs with so many nested variables and confounds. The methodological and analytical sophistication of the two studies reviewed below allow the authors to validate constructs central to the practice of group therapists using interpersonal process theory and attachment-based therapies. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 68: 93–98, 2018 Copyright © The American Group Psychotherapy Association, Inc. ISSN: 0020-7284 print/1943-2836 online DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2017.1375345

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