Group Psychotherapy - Science topic

Group Session Rating Scale (GSRS) may be a helpful tool:

Additionally, Group Climate Questionnaire (GCQ) by MacKenzie (1983) can also be a helpful measure: https://www.nova.edu/gsc/forms/GroupCohesionScale.pdf

I agree with what is indicated by S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist .

Good question

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read this scale and you'll fine many useful questions.

How has your participation in the group helped you to appreciate aspects of ylur relationship with your loved one - the good and the bad? How has the experience of sharing with others helped you feel less alone?

Most qualitative research using longer in-depth interviews will use questions taken from existing scales and adapted for interviewing participants or they are formulated by the researcher/research team in order to answer the research question.  For my recent research in gender identity I looked at the literature around Psychological Androgyny, Femininity, and Masculinity (especially Sandra Bem's work from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s) to form questions about personal perceptions and reflections about femininity and the intersection with marital status, in order to explore how these aspects impacted on psychological health and social wellbeing.  Therefore I would suggest being guided by your research question and existing literature in order to formulate appropriate questions for your study.  I hope this helps?!

Good advice from Stephen.

Other options is that trying variable selection using the Lasso if you have a lot of features (variables) and no prior information is available.

If you are worrying about the multicollinearity, use the elastic net instead of the Lasso. It can take care of this problem. If you want to read more about it, I recommend to go to the book "An introduction to statistical learning with application in R" which is freely available online. The authors also have online course on Coursera which is very nice.

Hope it help.

P/s: I also used the Lasso, the elastic net for variable selection in my problem. You can work well in R. Many online document about this is available.

Look at the historical work of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, especially the work of Harry Aponte. His classic book is Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and Values.

By Aponte, Harry J. 1994.

Stressing culture, community, and choice, this book speaks to therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than because they lack bread. The author's perspective arises from the theory and techniques of structural family therapy, but he goes beyond that view to reach for meaning in people's identities, traditions, and legacies. He urges therapists to recognize and work with spiritual forces in the poor and to avoid opportunistic practical solutions that assume that they are too poor, hungry, and downtrodden to care about meaning and purpose.

[The author] shows specifically how this can be done in therapy. . . . These vignettes show the subtle process of connecting with people, respecting their experiences and their values, helping them locate strengths and resources both within themselves and within the community, and making the changes that will restore health not only to individual families but also to the community.

He also proposes a training program to enhance awareness of diversity of race, culture, and values in the person of the therapist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, All rights reserved)

You might also check out the work of Nancy Boyd-Franklin: Intersections of race, class, and poverty: Challenges and resilience in African American families.

By Boyd-Franklin, Nancy; Karger, Melanie

Walsh, Froma (Ed), (2012). Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity (4th ed.). , (pp. 273-296). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press, xv, 592 pp.

In order to evaluate what is "normal" in the development of any family, clinicians and researchers must explore the larger social context in which the family lives (Hines & Boyd-Franklin, 2005; Pinderhughes, 2002; Walsh, Chapter 1, this volume). Race and class are two of the most complex and emotionally loaded issues in the United States. For poor, inner-city African American families, the day-to-day realities of racism, discrimination, classism, poverty, homelessness, violence, crime, and drugs create forces that continually threaten the family's survival (Sampson & Wilson, 2005). In the report, The State of Black America 2009, published by the National Urban League, Jones (2009) indicated, "Ironically, even as an African American man holds the highest office in this country, African Americans remain twice as likely as whites to be unemployed; three times more likely to live in poverty, and more than six times as likely to be incarcerated" (p. 1). The purpose of this chapter is to provide a framework that will be helpful for clinicians in understanding and working with African American families. Many clinicians who have no framework with which to view these complex realities may become overwhelmed (Boyd-Franklin, 2003; Pinderhughes, 1989; Sue, 2003). The first part of the chapter explores these issues in depth, and the second part utilizes a multisystems model (Boyd-Franklin, 2003) in order to empower families and the clinicians who work with them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)

Hi Sumru,

I recommend having them read some of the case studies in the book "Case studies in Abnormal Psychology." (http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP001999.html) It will really give them an idea of what they might face with their own patients in the future. It's also just interesting to read case studies in general I find! Even if you don't use it as assigned reading, you can take examples and ask them how they would go about treating these individuals.

Hope that helps,

Gerri

Dear Cinar,

In his classic The art of Psychotherapy, Anthony Storr talked about the qualities of a psychotherapist and the ways he set up his office.

I wonder if the following article is of interest to you:

Hi Ashley,

Cultural competence (including self-awareness, knowledge and skills) is required. The following resources may interest you:

Please find below a list with some (perhaps) useful references.

Dear Juan,

The following links would give you an overview of some of the possible treatments for your patients.

Darryl Inaba's Uppers, Downers, All Arounders would provide good materials for your psychoeducational groups.

Alan Marlatt's relapse prevention would be good for relapse prevention groups.

Depending on your work setting and community resources, you can refer your patients to NA (Narcotics Anonymous) or AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings, and their associated services (i.e., work the 12 steps with the patient's sponsor, and read the Big Book (of testimonies), etc.).

Best wishes,

Stephen

 Hello Zbigniew Wajda

Some papers that might help:

Corrigan, P. W., Watson, A. C., & Barr, L. (2006). The self-stigma of mental illness: Implications for self-esteem and self-efficacy. Journal of social and clinical psychology, 25(8), 875-884.

The fulltext is available from the author’s publication page on ResearchGate:

In study 2 of this paper, measures of self-esteem are discussed, and referenced to the paper below, which used the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (1965):

Torrey, W. C., Mueser, K. T., McHugo, G. H., & Drake, R. E. (2000). Self-esteem as an outcome measure in studies of vocational rehabilitation for adults with severe mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 51, 229-233.

The following paper also records the use of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale:

Wilfley, D. E., Welch, R. R., Stein, R. I., Spurrell, E. B., Cohen, L. R., Saelens, B. E., ... & Matt, G. E. (2002). A randomized comparison of group cognitive-behavioral therapy and group interpersonal psychotherapy for the treatment of overweight individuals with binge-eating disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59(8), 713-721.

The paper below records the use of the Index of Self-Esteem (Hudson, W. W. (1982). The Clinical Measurement Package: a field manual. Homewood: Dorsey Press.).

Knight, M. T., Wykes, T., & Hayward, P. (2006). Group treatment of perceived stigma and self-esteem in schizophrenia: a waiting list trial of efficacy. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 34(03), 305-318.

The paper below does not relate to group psychotherapy:

Zeigler–Hill, V., & Abraham, J. (2006). Borderline personality features: Instability of self–esteem and affect. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 25(6), 668-687.

Regarding the following paper - you may think that self-esteem was inferred rather than frequently mentioned per se:

Gilbert, P., & Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: Overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13(6), 353-379.

The below reference relates to Ch. 6 but the book is available on Google to sample:

 O’Brien, E. J., Bartoletti, M., & Leitzel, J. D. (2006). Self-esteem, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Self-esteem issues and answers: A sourcebook of current perspectives, 306-315.

Hope these help

Mary

There is the psychodrama approach as well as the family sculpting etc. that was Minuchin's work. Yalom's book is a widely used text in the area and it may be of assistance.