Mercédès Pavlicevic
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199586974
- eISBN:
- 9780191738357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Health Psychology
This chapter explores how close descriptions of the ‘musicking heart’ of group music therapy might convey the value of such practices for enhancing people's social networks and resources. It ...
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This chapter explores how close descriptions of the ‘musicking heart’ of group music therapy might convey the value of such practices for enhancing people's social networks and resources. It emphasizes musicking events in group music therapy work, on the understanding that while complex layers of social structures and processes make possible — and indeed are part of — such events, therapeutic musicking is a distinctive phenomenon. Group music therapy work invites ongoing, fluid, spontaneous, musicking actions from all, enabling a redressing, repairing, adjusting, and enhancing of shared vital flowing between and within persons. Music's structure offers purposeful direction and momentum — even if people are unable to move or remember songs or know who they are. Shared participative musicking reconfigures illness-defined identity (of therapist, patient, care-worker); transforming these into musician, leader, soloist, listener, accompanist, dancer, singer, drummer, or conductor.Less
This chapter explores how close descriptions of the ‘musicking heart’ of group music therapy might convey the value of such practices for enhancing people's social networks and resources. It emphasizes musicking events in group music therapy work, on the understanding that while complex layers of social structures and processes make possible — and indeed are part of — such events, therapeutic musicking is a distinctive phenomenon. Group music therapy work invites ongoing, fluid, spontaneous, musicking actions from all, enabling a redressing, repairing, adjusting, and enhancing of shared vital flowing between and within persons. Music's structure offers purposeful direction and momentum — even if people are unable to move or remember songs or know who they are. Shared participative musicking reconfigures illness-defined identity (of therapist, patient, care-worker); transforming these into musician, leader, soloist, listener, accompanist, dancer, singer, drummer, or conductor.
Gary M. Burlingame, Debra Theobald McClendon, and Jennifer Alonso
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199737208
- eISBN:
- 9780199894635
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737208.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Cohesion is the most popular of several relationship constructs in the group therapy literature. This chapter reviews the most frequently cited definitions and studied measures of group cohesion. ...
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Cohesion is the most popular of several relationship constructs in the group therapy literature. This chapter reviews the most frequently cited definitions and studied measures of group cohesion. This chapter briefly introduces a new measure, the Group Questionnaire, which elucidates group relationships by suggesting two latent factors of cohesion: relationship quality (positive bond, positive work, and negative relationship) and structure factors (member–leader and member–member). To further understand the literature, a meta-analysis was conducted examining the relationship between cohesion and treatment outcome in forty studies. Results indicate cohesion has a moderate relationship with outcome and five moderator variables. Consideration of measures and practices to improve treatment outcome are highlighted.Less
Cohesion is the most popular of several relationship constructs in the group therapy literature. This chapter reviews the most frequently cited definitions and studied measures of group cohesion. This chapter briefly introduces a new measure, the Group Questionnaire, which elucidates group relationships by suggesting two latent factors of cohesion: relationship quality (positive bond, positive work, and negative relationship) and structure factors (member–leader and member–member). To further understand the literature, a meta-analysis was conducted examining the relationship between cohesion and treatment outcome in forty studies. Results indicate cohesion has a moderate relationship with outcome and five moderator variables. Consideration of measures and practices to improve treatment outcome are highlighted.
Alison Ledger
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199580514
- eISBN:
- 9780191728730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580514.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology
As the leader of a group music therapy programme for families in Irish schools, the author of this chapter has watched children and their parents enjoying and sharing in music making together. It is ...
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As the leader of a group music therapy programme for families in Irish schools, the author of this chapter has watched children and their parents enjoying and sharing in music making together. It is rewarding to see parents becoming more involved with their children as sessions progress, the chapter states, but at the same time, the work is challenging. Flexibility is needed in order to fit in with long-established school routines and timetables. This chapter explains some of the considerations involved in working within this school-based programme including professional challenges and a range of service delivery issues. The work described here took place in 2007 when the author was employed on an hourly sessional basis for two days per week by a charity organization that provides creative arts therapy services to schools in areas referred to as ‘disadvantaged’. The mission of this organization is to make emotional supports available to young people in need. By offering creative therapies early in life, the organization's intention is to help young people to realize their full potential.Less
As the leader of a group music therapy programme for families in Irish schools, the author of this chapter has watched children and their parents enjoying and sharing in music making together. It is rewarding to see parents becoming more involved with their children as sessions progress, the chapter states, but at the same time, the work is challenging. Flexibility is needed in order to fit in with long-established school routines and timetables. This chapter explains some of the considerations involved in working within this school-based programme including professional challenges and a range of service delivery issues. The work described here took place in 2007 when the author was employed on an hourly sessional basis for two days per week by a charity organization that provides creative arts therapy services to schools in areas referred to as ‘disadvantaged’. The mission of this organization is to make emotional supports available to young people in need. By offering creative therapies early in life, the organization's intention is to help young people to realize their full potential.
Paola Luzzatto and Bonnie Gabriel
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199297559
- eISBN:
- 9780191730023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297559.003.0010
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Pain Management and Palliative Pharmacology
This chapter offers a definition of art therapy and a brief history of its development as a profession, first in the United Kingdom and the United States, and then throughout the world. The main ...
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This chapter offers a definition of art therapy and a brief history of its development as a profession, first in the United Kingdom and the United States, and then throughout the world. The main feature of art therapy is the use of images and imagination, through which patients can express, understand, and elaborate their emotions at a symbolic level, within the therapeutic relationship. This chapter considers some basic interventions for complementary and palliative care: bedside interventions with hospitalised patients, the open studio with patients during treatment, short-term group art therapy known as Creative Journey, and individual art psychotherapy. It also discusses the criteria for referral to art therapy.Less
This chapter offers a definition of art therapy and a brief history of its development as a profession, first in the United Kingdom and the United States, and then throughout the world. The main feature of art therapy is the use of images and imagination, through which patients can express, understand, and elaborate their emotions at a symbolic level, within the therapeutic relationship. This chapter considers some basic interventions for complementary and palliative care: bedside interventions with hospitalised patients, the open studio with patients during treatment, short-term group art therapy known as Creative Journey, and individual art psychotherapy. It also discusses the criteria for referral to art therapy.
Eric E. McCollum, Sandra M. Stith, and Cynthia J. Thomsen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195385724
- eISBN:
- 9780199914586
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385724.003.0073
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter focuses on the Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT) program, which is the result of efforts over the past twelve years to develop and test a safe and effective approach to ...
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This chapter focuses on the Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT) program, which is the result of efforts over the past twelve years to develop and test a safe and effective approach to providing conjoint treatment to couples who wish it. DVFCT is delivered in eighteen weekly sessions in either a multicouple group format or an individual couple format. In both cases, cotherapy teams are used. To date, two overlapping assessments of the outcome of DVFCT have been conducted. There is enough evidence at this point to suggest that DVFCT demonstrates at least the potential to both decrease relationship aggression and increase relationship satisfaction—especially in the multicouple group format.Less
This chapter focuses on the Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT) program, which is the result of efforts over the past twelve years to develop and test a safe and effective approach to providing conjoint treatment to couples who wish it. DVFCT is delivered in eighteen weekly sessions in either a multicouple group format or an individual couple format. In both cases, cotherapy teams are used. To date, two overlapping assessments of the outcome of DVFCT have been conducted. There is enough evidence at this point to suggest that DVFCT demonstrates at least the potential to both decrease relationship aggression and increase relationship satisfaction—especially in the multicouple group format.
Janine Giese-Davis, Karen Altree Piemme, Caroline Dillon, and Suzanne Twirbutt
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198529620
- eISBN:
- 9780191689673
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529620.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
The goals of this chapter is to present a rationale and methodology for closely examining emotional expression and verbal narratives from videotape of group therapy sessions. Empirical evidence about ...
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The goals of this chapter is to present a rationale and methodology for closely examining emotional expression and verbal narratives from videotape of group therapy sessions. Empirical evidence about the role of emotional expression in breast cancer survival provides a justification for the careful study this chapter is based upon. A general discussion of behavioral research on group therapy and the rationale and hypotheses that have generated this particular study of emotion in breast cancer support groups is presented. The chapter describes the methodology for coding these naturally occurring groups, to present some sample data from the work, and to offer the emotion coding and verbal narrative definitions. The use of Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) has allowed the study to code specific emotion categories across a wide range of natural behavior and emotions. This study has also used the James Long System (JLC) which has allowed for continuous data at the frame by frame level of analysis to be sampled.Less
The goals of this chapter is to present a rationale and methodology for closely examining emotional expression and verbal narratives from videotape of group therapy sessions. Empirical evidence about the role of emotional expression in breast cancer survival provides a justification for the careful study this chapter is based upon. A general discussion of behavioral research on group therapy and the rationale and hypotheses that have generated this particular study of emotion in breast cancer support groups is presented. The chapter describes the methodology for coding these naturally occurring groups, to present some sample data from the work, and to offer the emotion coding and verbal narrative definitions. The use of Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) has allowed the study to code specific emotion categories across a wide range of natural behavior and emotions. This study has also used the James Long System (JLC) which has allowed for continuous data at the frame by frame level of analysis to be sampled.
Vivian Center Seltzer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740422
- eISBN:
- 9780814741023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.003.0013
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter describes Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy with adolescents. PAL group therapy is designed to assist troubled adolescents in working through their need for a defensive glitch and to ...
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This chapter describes Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy with adolescents. PAL group therapy is designed to assist troubled adolescents in working through their need for a defensive glitch and to prepare them to return to the Peer Arena to complete the adolescent psychological task of developing successfully into maturity. Therapy groups are assembled in such a way as to replicate the adolescent's home Peer Arena as much as possible. The overall goal of PAL group therapy is to strengthen adolescents' return to their natural Peer Arena, so that they are ready to deal constructively with peer interaction. To accomplish this goal, they will learn to use comparative acts constructively, cope with the findings, and sustain ups and downs without resorting to defensive glitches. The Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols are designed for use in PAL group therapy. This chapter considers the structure of PAL group therapy as well as the admission and application process, finishing process, leaving process, group discharge criteria and group discharge process, and group therapy design features.Less
This chapter describes Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy with adolescents. PAL group therapy is designed to assist troubled adolescents in working through their need for a defensive glitch and to prepare them to return to the Peer Arena to complete the adolescent psychological task of developing successfully into maturity. Therapy groups are assembled in such a way as to replicate the adolescent's home Peer Arena as much as possible. The overall goal of PAL group therapy is to strengthen adolescents' return to their natural Peer Arena, so that they are ready to deal constructively with peer interaction. To accomplish this goal, they will learn to use comparative acts constructively, cope with the findings, and sustain ups and downs without resorting to defensive glitches. The Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols are designed for use in PAL group therapy. This chapter considers the structure of PAL group therapy as well as the admission and application process, finishing process, leaving process, group discharge criteria and group discharge process, and group therapy design features.
Michael J. Silverman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198735366
- eISBN:
- 9780191802249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735366.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Health Psychology
While music has long been used in healing practices, contemporary music therapy is a flexible psychosocial intervention that psychiatric consumers tend to favor. Although the music therapy literature ...
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While music has long been used in healing practices, contemporary music therapy is a flexible psychosocial intervention that psychiatric consumers tend to favor. Although the music therapy literature base is small when compared to cognitive behavioral therapy, music therapy can be an effective adjunct treatment modality for people with severe mental illnesses. Many psychiatric music therapists work in acute-care settings in which they provide group-based treatment focused on augmenting illness management and recovery knowledge and skills. Music therapy for illness management and recovery is as effective as psychoeducation in a variety of measures during randomized controlled clinical trials and can engage and motivate patients to attend, engage, and actively participate in sessions. By continuing the strong tradition of research, adapting to policy changes, scientific advances, and rigorous academic and clinical training, music therapists will likely have a continued and even heightened role in treating people with mental disorders.Less
While music has long been used in healing practices, contemporary music therapy is a flexible psychosocial intervention that psychiatric consumers tend to favor. Although the music therapy literature base is small when compared to cognitive behavioral therapy, music therapy can be an effective adjunct treatment modality for people with severe mental illnesses. Many psychiatric music therapists work in acute-care settings in which they provide group-based treatment focused on augmenting illness management and recovery knowledge and skills. Music therapy for illness management and recovery is as effective as psychoeducation in a variety of measures during randomized controlled clinical trials and can engage and motivate patients to attend, engage, and actively participate in sessions. By continuing the strong tradition of research, adapting to policy changes, scientific advances, and rigorous academic and clinical training, music therapists will likely have a continued and even heightened role in treating people with mental disorders.
Vivian Center Seltzer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740422
- eISBN:
- 9780814741023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter presents a case study—that of a fourteen-year-old Black male of Caribbean descent in the ninth grade who lived in a lower-middle-class neighborhood near a large New Jersey city—to ...
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This chapter presents a case study—that of a fourteen-year-old Black male of Caribbean descent in the ninth grade who lived in a lower-middle-class neighborhood near a large New Jersey city—to illustrate the ever-present potential for complexity in Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy. Several examples of complexity are evident in this case, including the decision-making process that must take place to meet an adolescent's altered “next-step” needs. The boy's case also demonstrates how PAL procedures can be mixed and matched and how and when Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols can be used even after the adolescents are enrolled in PAL. This chapter focuses on the boy's referral information, family history, missing information, cognitive development, and the protocols used to determine if the boy had adopted a defensive glitch. It also considers the boy's reentry into PAL group therapy and how he was impacted by the therapy.Less
This chapter presents a case study—that of a fourteen-year-old Black male of Caribbean descent in the ninth grade who lived in a lower-middle-class neighborhood near a large New Jersey city—to illustrate the ever-present potential for complexity in Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy. Several examples of complexity are evident in this case, including the decision-making process that must take place to meet an adolescent's altered “next-step” needs. The boy's case also demonstrates how PAL procedures can be mixed and matched and how and when Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols can be used even after the adolescents are enrolled in PAL. This chapter focuses on the boy's referral information, family history, missing information, cognitive development, and the protocols used to determine if the boy had adopted a defensive glitch. It also considers the boy's reentry into PAL group therapy and how he was impacted by the therapy.
Nicholas M. Levine
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195378443
- eISBN:
- 9780199869701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378443.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the order's beliefs and practices. Earl Blighton, known to Holy Order of MANS (HOOM) members as Father Paul, wedded new thought and an esoteric belief system that included ...
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This chapter examines the order's beliefs and practices. Earl Blighton, known to Holy Order of MANS (HOOM) members as Father Paul, wedded new thought and an esoteric belief system that included elements from Indian yoga systems to traditional practices from Catholicism. Order of Christ Sophia situates itself firmly in the tradition of the Holy Order of MANS. This is evident in the Holy Order of Christ Sophia's (OCS) theological terminology, clerical attire, and day-to-day rituals. There have also been certain additions to the original HOOM synthesis. Perhaps the most important new element is the addition of a psychotherapeutic dimension that engages members in a kind of ongoing group therapy as an integral part of their spiritual practice.Less
This chapter examines the order's beliefs and practices. Earl Blighton, known to Holy Order of MANS (HOOM) members as Father Paul, wedded new thought and an esoteric belief system that included elements from Indian yoga systems to traditional practices from Catholicism. Order of Christ Sophia situates itself firmly in the tradition of the Holy Order of MANS. This is evident in the Holy Order of Christ Sophia's (OCS) theological terminology, clerical attire, and day-to-day rituals. There have also been certain additions to the original HOOM synthesis. Perhaps the most important new element is the addition of a psychotherapeutic dimension that engages members in a kind of ongoing group therapy as an integral part of their spiritual practice.
Vivian Center Seltzer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740422
- eISBN:
- 9780814741023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.003.0014
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter presents two case studies that illustrate the structure and process of Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy. Both cases involve teenage girls, one from a middle-class Latino family and ...
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This chapter presents two case studies that illustrate the structure and process of Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy. Both cases involve teenage girls, one from a middle-class Latino family and the other from a white middle-class family. The first girl had adopted a False Facade defensive glitch and donned a mask of maturity. The marijuana found in her room was the first crack in her defensive glitch. The second case presents information on an unusual home environment, the effects of scarcity of peers for comparative acts, the impact of puberty, use of protocols, and PAL therapy interactional dynamics. This chapter considers the diagnosis done on the two girls and evaluates the impact of PAL group therapy on them.Less
This chapter presents two case studies that illustrate the structure and process of Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy. Both cases involve teenage girls, one from a middle-class Latino family and the other from a white middle-class family. The first girl had adopted a False Facade defensive glitch and donned a mask of maturity. The marijuana found in her room was the first crack in her defensive glitch. The second case presents information on an unusual home environment, the effects of scarcity of peers for comparative acts, the impact of puberty, use of protocols, and PAL therapy interactional dynamics. This chapter considers the diagnosis done on the two girls and evaluates the impact of PAL group therapy on them.
Michael J. Silverman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198735366
- eISBN:
- 9780191802249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735366.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Health Psychology
This chapter applies transdiagnostic theory to group-based psychiatric music therapy. While the concept of transdiagnostic theory may be relatively simple to conceptualize and apply, the reasons ...
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This chapter applies transdiagnostic theory to group-based psychiatric music therapy. While the concept of transdiagnostic theory may be relatively simple to conceptualize and apply, the reasons supporting implementation of this theory into contemporary clinical practice are just as important—if not more important—than the theory itself. Psychiatric disease classifications have numerous problems, including subjectivity, relying upon patients’ reported symptom profiles, the perseveration of stigma, increased symptomology, and postponing help-seeking behaviors. Although diagnoses are unquestionably important, in group-based music therapy, diagnoses typically do not functionally help patients. Transdiagnostic theory is a treatment approach in which clinicians do not focus on the specific diagnosis. Rather, clinicians are more concerned with cognitive, behavioral, and affective features and patterns that maintain the illnesses as well as shared pathologies and psychosocial stressors between group members. Application of transdiagnostic theory may facilitate vicarious learning, on-task behavior, and greater engagement during group-based music therapy treatment.Less
This chapter applies transdiagnostic theory to group-based psychiatric music therapy. While the concept of transdiagnostic theory may be relatively simple to conceptualize and apply, the reasons supporting implementation of this theory into contemporary clinical practice are just as important—if not more important—than the theory itself. Psychiatric disease classifications have numerous problems, including subjectivity, relying upon patients’ reported symptom profiles, the perseveration of stigma, increased symptomology, and postponing help-seeking behaviors. Although diagnoses are unquestionably important, in group-based music therapy, diagnoses typically do not functionally help patients. Transdiagnostic theory is a treatment approach in which clinicians do not focus on the specific diagnosis. Rather, clinicians are more concerned with cognitive, behavioral, and affective features and patterns that maintain the illnesses as well as shared pathologies and psychosocial stressors between group members. Application of transdiagnostic theory may facilitate vicarious learning, on-task behavior, and greater engagement during group-based music therapy treatment.
Vivian Center Seltzer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740422
- eISBN:
- 9780814741023
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their ...
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Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet this book argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior. Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. The book explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients. The books is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, it provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.Less
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed, much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet this book argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior. Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. The book explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients. The books is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, it provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.
Alan Doyle, Julius Lanoil, and Kenneth J. Dudek
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231157100
- eISBN:
- 9780231535991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231157100.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Health Psychology
This chapter explores the development of activity group therapy (AGT), led by social work graduate, John Beard, and psychiatrist, Arthur J. Pearce. Like other mental health reformers, Beard and ...
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This chapter explores the development of activity group therapy (AGT), led by social work graduate, John Beard, and psychiatrist, Arthur J. Pearce. Like other mental health reformers, Beard and Pearce, together with their teammates, were appalled by the living conditions of people with mental illness housed in asylums. They eventually adopted a form of group work practice which they coined activity group therapy. AGT sought to restore the social functioning of patients, who remained in the ward, by involving them in everyday group activities. If successful, the team could extrapolate their findings and apply these to larger populations of patients suffering from mental illness. While applying AGT, the team observed that some patients retained their capacity for normal work when they left the hospital ward.Less
This chapter explores the development of activity group therapy (AGT), led by social work graduate, John Beard, and psychiatrist, Arthur J. Pearce. Like other mental health reformers, Beard and Pearce, together with their teammates, were appalled by the living conditions of people with mental illness housed in asylums. They eventually adopted a form of group work practice which they coined activity group therapy. AGT sought to restore the social functioning of patients, who remained in the ward, by involving them in everyday group activities. If successful, the team could extrapolate their findings and apply these to larger populations of patients suffering from mental illness. While applying AGT, the team observed that some patients retained their capacity for normal work when they left the hospital ward.
Vivian Center Seltzer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740422
- eISBN:
- 9780814741023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740422.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This book has explored confusing adolescent behavior from a Peer Arena lens. Recognizing such behavior as primarily the result of psychological interactions and comparison with peers provides an ...
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This book has explored confusing adolescent behavior from a Peer Arena lens. Recognizing such behavior as primarily the result of psychological interactions and comparison with peers provides an opportunity to better understand adolescents' efforts to see themselves through the stressful period of individuation and of becoming their own person. The Peer Arena lens allows the professional to accept the fact that adolescents want to be together with other adolescents. Professionals who focus on the “conflict of the generations” and “rebellion” miss the essence of adolescence and the importance of the Peer Arena for adolescent development. This book has provided key insights into the theory and practice of working with adolescents by drawing on Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols and the Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy.Less
This book has explored confusing adolescent behavior from a Peer Arena lens. Recognizing such behavior as primarily the result of psychological interactions and comparison with peers provides an opportunity to better understand adolescents' efforts to see themselves through the stressful period of individuation and of becoming their own person. The Peer Arena lens allows the professional to accept the fact that adolescents want to be together with other adolescents. Professionals who focus on the “conflict of the generations” and “rebellion” miss the essence of adolescence and the importance of the Peer Arena for adolescent development. This book has provided key insights into the theory and practice of working with adolescents by drawing on Peer Arena Retrospective (PAR) protocols and the Peer Arena Lens (PAL) group therapy.
Esra Caglar
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199665662
- eISBN:
- 9780191918322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199665662.003.0016
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Psychiatry
Psychological therapies are often the first-line treatments for psychiatric disorders, depending on their nature and severity. In many cases they work best in ...
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Psychological therapies are often the first-line treatments for psychiatric disorders, depending on their nature and severity. In many cases they work best in conjunction with medication. The UK government is encouraging improved and timely access to psychological treatments in both primary and secondary care services. Psychological treatments can be carried out in community mental health services, specialist psychotherapy services, and the private sector. Psychological therapies have a rich history. Today a number of evidence-based, innovative treatments are available. There is advanced research in psychotherapy, which comes with its own challenges. Psychotherapies can be delivered to individuals, families, couples, or groups. They can be as short as a few sessions or can last for more than a year, depending on the modality. The focus may be varied, such as anxiety symptoms, specific phobias, relationship problems, mood disturbances, or difficult life events. Psychodynamic psychotherapy gives people a fixed time to think—and talk—about the feelings we all have about ourselves and other people such as family or close ones. CBT focuses on how we think about the things going on in our life—thoughts, images, beliefs, and attitudes (cognitive processes)—and how this impacts the way we behave and deal with emotional problems. Family therapy looks at the family as a system and works on each individual’s relationship with others and involvement with the problem.
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Psychological therapies are often the first-line treatments for psychiatric disorders, depending on their nature and severity. In many cases they work best in conjunction with medication. The UK government is encouraging improved and timely access to psychological treatments in both primary and secondary care services. Psychological treatments can be carried out in community mental health services, specialist psychotherapy services, and the private sector. Psychological therapies have a rich history. Today a number of evidence-based, innovative treatments are available. There is advanced research in psychotherapy, which comes with its own challenges. Psychotherapies can be delivered to individuals, families, couples, or groups. They can be as short as a few sessions or can last for more than a year, depending on the modality. The focus may be varied, such as anxiety symptoms, specific phobias, relationship problems, mood disturbances, or difficult life events. Psychodynamic psychotherapy gives people a fixed time to think—and talk—about the feelings we all have about ourselves and other people such as family or close ones. CBT focuses on how we think about the things going on in our life—thoughts, images, beliefs, and attitudes (cognitive processes)—and how this impacts the way we behave and deal with emotional problems. Family therapy looks at the family as a system and works on each individual’s relationship with others and involvement with the problem.
Edward Orozco Flores
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479850099
- eISBN:
- 9781479818129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479850099.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Religion
This chapter explores different platforms for public speaking, such as group therapy or bible studies, and how they offer recovering gang members opportunities to experience reform from gang life, as ...
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This chapter explores different platforms for public speaking, such as group therapy or bible studies, and how they offer recovering gang members opportunities to experience reform from gang life, as well as to earn legitimacy for being reformed. The public talk of gang recovery invited situated performances that rearticulated Chicano masculinity. Recovering gang members used public talk to advance “redemption scripts” and construct reformed barrio masculinity, facilitating recovery from gang life and social reintegration. The chapter probes deeper into how this gendered redemption sequence operates as a discursive process. Gang recovery programs, through the spaces they provide for public talk, centrally negotiate masculinity and facilitate reform. Public talk in gang recovery reformulates Chicano gang masculinity into warm, nurturing expressions. During these sessions, the recovering gang members talk about their personal lives and encourage each other to talk about family and to feel empathy for family members.Less
This chapter explores different platforms for public speaking, such as group therapy or bible studies, and how they offer recovering gang members opportunities to experience reform from gang life, as well as to earn legitimacy for being reformed. The public talk of gang recovery invited situated performances that rearticulated Chicano masculinity. Recovering gang members used public talk to advance “redemption scripts” and construct reformed barrio masculinity, facilitating recovery from gang life and social reintegration. The chapter probes deeper into how this gendered redemption sequence operates as a discursive process. Gang recovery programs, through the spaces they provide for public talk, centrally negotiate masculinity and facilitate reform. Public talk in gang recovery reformulates Chicano gang masculinity into warm, nurturing expressions. During these sessions, the recovering gang members talk about their personal lives and encourage each other to talk about family and to feel empathy for family members.
Andeline dos Santos
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198808992
- eISBN:
- 9780191846694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198808992.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology / School Psychology
A music therapy group for adolescents referred for aggression can afford a context where the sense of aggression can be received, explored, and processed, but also where aggression becomes non-sense. ...
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A music therapy group for adolescents referred for aggression can afford a context where the sense of aggression can be received, explored, and processed, but also where aggression becomes non-sense. This chapter examines the multifaceted nature of aggression and how, through group music therapy, adolescents’ multiplicities can be welcomed, a non-judgemental space for the exploration of anger and self-control can be offered, generative negotiation can be practised, personal pain can be voiced, and the pain of others can be heard and held. Through this process adolescents can grow increasingly aware of how their own behaviour impacts the cycles of aggression they are part of, and how alternative behavioural strategies can elicit more generative responses from others.Less
A music therapy group for adolescents referred for aggression can afford a context where the sense of aggression can be received, explored, and processed, but also where aggression becomes non-sense. This chapter examines the multifaceted nature of aggression and how, through group music therapy, adolescents’ multiplicities can be welcomed, a non-judgemental space for the exploration of anger and self-control can be offered, generative negotiation can be practised, personal pain can be voiced, and the pain of others can be heard and held. Through this process adolescents can grow increasingly aware of how their own behaviour impacts the cycles of aggression they are part of, and how alternative behavioural strategies can elicit more generative responses from others.
Anthony Chaney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469631738
- eISBN:
- 9781469631752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631738.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter investigates how double-bind theory was received by the psychiatric community with respect to contested views of the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. A moral model of ...
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This chapter investigates how double-bind theory was received by the psychiatric community with respect to contested views of the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. A moral model of schizophrenia is contrasted with a medical model of an earlier, more rigorously defined dementia praecox. The treatment of schizophrenics in the United States, especially during and after the world wars, is described as pragmatic and eclectic. The double-bind theory's environmental, biological, interactive model of the disease was met with hope among clinicians and helped shape new treatments such as group therapy and family therapy. As the double-bind group continued its work, Gregory Bateson was conflicted with his research team over fundamental matters of science: he recommended an approach that focused on pattern and relationship; they, more conventionally, focused on substance and measurement. His collaboration with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann lead to the Natural History of an Interview research project. It also took Bateson further from clinical work and toward research with octopi and the editing of the journals of an early 19th-century schizophrenic, later published as Perceval's Narrative.Less
This chapter investigates how double-bind theory was received by the psychiatric community with respect to contested views of the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. A moral model of schizophrenia is contrasted with a medical model of an earlier, more rigorously defined dementia praecox. The treatment of schizophrenics in the United States, especially during and after the world wars, is described as pragmatic and eclectic. The double-bind theory's environmental, biological, interactive model of the disease was met with hope among clinicians and helped shape new treatments such as group therapy and family therapy. As the double-bind group continued its work, Gregory Bateson was conflicted with his research team over fundamental matters of science: he recommended an approach that focused on pattern and relationship; they, more conventionally, focused on substance and measurement. His collaboration with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann lead to the Natural History of an Interview research project. It also took Bateson further from clinical work and toward research with octopi and the editing of the journals of an early 19th-century schizophrenic, later published as Perceval's Narrative.
Alan Doyle, Julius Lanoil, and Kenneth J. Dudek
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231157100
- eISBN:
- 9780231535991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231157100.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Health Psychology
This chapter discusses the institutionalization of the Fountain House. A few wealthy volunteers, who joined with a group of ex-patients from a state psychiatric hospital, launched the Fountain House ...
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This chapter discusses the institutionalization of the Fountain House. A few wealthy volunteers, who joined with a group of ex-patients from a state psychiatric hospital, launched the Fountain House by purchasing a building in mid-town Manhattan, New York City, in 1948. The early Fountain House, like the settlement house movement, incorporated an empowerment approach, with members banding together under a patient-directed Fellowship for their mutual benefit. The Fountain House, however, was not conceptually based on the tradition of the settlement house movement, but on the tenets of the activity group therapy (AGT), introduced by John Beard in 1955. The Fountain House that Beard redesigned featured area work groups, in which participation was considered pre-vocational in intent, and suitable for patients recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital.Less
This chapter discusses the institutionalization of the Fountain House. A few wealthy volunteers, who joined with a group of ex-patients from a state psychiatric hospital, launched the Fountain House by purchasing a building in mid-town Manhattan, New York City, in 1948. The early Fountain House, like the settlement house movement, incorporated an empowerment approach, with members banding together under a patient-directed Fellowship for their mutual benefit. The Fountain House, however, was not conceptually based on the tradition of the settlement house movement, but on the tenets of the activity group therapy (AGT), introduced by John Beard in 1955. The Fountain House that Beard redesigned featured area work groups, in which participation was considered pre-vocational in intent, and suitable for patients recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital.