Resource Tag: GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Background: Although there are several studies focusing on group models for therapy specific to suicidal thoughts and behaviors, scoping reviews providing an overview of these studies’ findings are limited. Aims: The aim of this paper was to conduct a scoping review of group therapies that explicitly target suicidal thoughts and behaviors (i.e., suicide-focused) for adults and their suicide-related […]

This guide helps counselors improve their skills in leading group therapy sessions for substance use treatment. The guide discusses types of group therapy, confidentiality, client placement, group development, stages of treatment, how-to tips, training, and supervision.

Background: Thousands of children are bereaved each year by suicide, yet there exists very little literature specifically on the psychological care, programs, and interventions available to help them. Aims: (1) To build and validate theoretical models for the Group Therapy Program for Children Bereaved by Suicide (PCBS); (2) to test these models in a preliminary evaluation. Methods: In […]

The need for helping professionals to provide services from a trauma-informed perspective has been receiving increasing attention. The primary goal of adopting a trauma-informed approach is to prevent inadvertent re-traumatization during service provision, and to ensure people receive appropriate services in a non-pathologizing manner. However, despite the growing recognition of trauma-informed approaches, there is lack […]

Introduction Few evidence-based options exist for outpatient treatment of patients at risk of suicide, and to-date almost all research has focused on individually delivered psychotherapy. Group therapy for veterans at risk of suicide is a promising alternative. Methods Thirty veterans receiving care at an urban Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the southern United States were […]

Background: This PRISMA scoping review explored worldwide research of interventions for suicide prevention delivered within a group setting. Research on group treatments underscores the importance of peer connection in diminishing social isolation and increasing social support. Additional benefits of group treatment include cost efficiency and maximization of staff time. However, the clinical outcomes of group treatments […]

In 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs mandated that clinicians oversee the construction of a Suicide Safety Plan for every patient who is identified as “high risk” for suicide. While the Suicide Safety Plan is a mandated “best practice,” there are currently no recommended guidelines for its augmentation in a group setting. To address this […]

Behavioral health services have been tasked with rapidly adopting and implementing teletherapy during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic to assure patient and staff safety. Existing teletherapy guidelines were developed prior to the pandemic and do not capture the nuances of rapidly transitioning in-person individual and group-based treatments to a teletherapy format. In this paper, we describe our […]

Background This PRISMA scoping review explored worldwide research of interventions for suicide prevention delivered within a group setting. Research on group treatments underscores the importance of peer connection in diminishing social isolation and increasing social support. Additional benefits of group treatment include cost efficiency and maximization of staff time. However, the clinical outcomes of group […]

Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) is a manual-based group treatment of persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD). We report results from a study of offenders supervised by the Iowa Department of Corrections. Seventy-seven offenders participated in STEPPS groups. The offenders experienced clinically significant improvement in BPD-related symptoms (d = 1.30), mood, […]

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Within the framework of a crisis intervention department of a university medical centre, this presentation discussed inpatient group therapy as a central possibility for crisis intervention. The functions of group therapy were examined from the point of view of their adequacy & effectiveness for different patient groups. The results of a catamnestic investigation were presented […]

OBJECTIVE: Axis II disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder, are highly associated with suicidal behaviours. This paper aims to evaluate treatment of suicidality in borderline personality disorder. METHOD: Systematic review of the empirical literature on the clinical effectiveness of psychosocial treatments in reducing suicidal behaviours in patients with personality disorders. A summary of empirical findings is […]

This article presents the development of an anti-group among a group of parents whose children committed suicide. All the participants but two were children of Holocaust survivors (i.e. second-generation Holocaust survivors); these two were married to second-generation Holocaust survivors, so that in all cases, the son who committed suicide had at least one parent who […]

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This article focuses on a single case study of depression in a mother & son, which ultimately culminated in the mother’s death by suicide. The author relates the depressive illnesses experienced by both parties to major disruptions of identity caused by social mobility & demographic change. (3 refs)

In this paper a preliminary evaluation of a specialist programme for the ambulatory treatment of patients with personality disorder is presented. This study presents 36 months’ follow up results in several dimensions of patients’ functioning, including number & severity of psychiatric symptoms, social adaptation, self-harm, attempted suicide & psychiatric utilisation. The results showed significant improvements […]

In this article, the author attempts to show that containment in Foulkesian group-analytic therapy has a number of different aspects. The author outlines how containment needs to be active as well as interpretive, & outlines the role of the conductor. She then describes the case of a male patient with borderline personality disorder, whose absences […]

This chapter describes the design, implementation, & qualitative evaluation of a school-based pilot group psychotherapy program for adolescents who directly sustained violent injury or who witnessed the violent injury or death of a close friend or family member. “Wounded adolescence” refers to the profound developmental impact of violent traumatization among adolescents. From postgroup evaluative essays, […]

This presentation discussed “Exploring Together”, a short-term group therapy program for children & adolescents with emotional & behavioural problems. The program consists of a children’s/adolescents’ group, a parent’s group, & a group for children, adolescent & parents, as well as meetings for partners & teachers. The program has been held in clinics, community agencies, & […]