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Criteria for selecting patients. In general, most patients can work efficiently in some form of group therapy. Patients are candidates for group therapy if they are willing to listen to others and talk about themselves. The exclusion criteria are: refusal to join a group or to endure group agreements and severe problems to relate interpersonally.
Contrary to popular opinion, people who are not well in the group are NOT the primary candidates for group therapies.
Caution should also be exercised in including patients who are very impulsive, intensely suicidal or homicidal or psychotic.
Ideally, there should be at least one individual interview before the patient is accepted into the group. Some patients may require more, especially if they are unfamiliar with therapy or are ambivalent about whether to join the group. The assessment of a patient for group therapy, and in particular for your group, requires face-to-face contact. The interview can also help create an alliance …show more content…
Some of them do it in the first place by diagnosis, others by age, by social, economic and intellectual conditions, or by the same necessity. Groups can be open or closed, homogeneous or heterogeneous, depending on how the therapist wishes to stimulate or maintain patterns of behavior. The use of different people with opposite problems tends to develop a maximum of stimulation and acts in the direction of the discharge of tensions in the group. The number of similar individuals with the same type of problems tends to encourage the suppression of other behavior patterns, and if people are different with similar or opposite problems. Balance with patients of similar, opposing or different types tends to favor the therapeutic process. The number of patients will depend on the personality of the therapist, as well as the number of sessions and the type of treatment, being this active, relationship, authoritarian, educational, interview or
Criteria for selecting patients. In general, most patients can work efficiently in some form of group therapy. Patients are candidates for group therapy if they are willing to listen to others and talk about themselves. The exclusion criteria are: refusal to join a group or to endure group agreements and severe problems to relate interpersonally.
Contrary to popular opinion, people who are not well in the group are NOT the primary candidates for group therapies.
Caution should also be exercised in including patients who are very impulsive, intensely suicidal or homicidal or psychotic.
Ideally, there should be at least one individual interview before the patient is accepted into the group. Some patients may require more, especially if they are unfamiliar with therapy or are ambivalent about whether to join the group. The assessment of a patient for group therapy, and in particular for your group, requires face-to-face contact. The interview can also help create an alliance …show more content…
Some of them do it in the first place by diagnosis, others by age, by social, economic and intellectual conditions, or by the same necessity. Groups can be open or closed, homogeneous or heterogeneous, depending on how the therapist wishes to stimulate or maintain patterns of behavior. The use of different people with opposite problems tends to develop a maximum of stimulation and acts in the direction of the discharge of tensions in the group. The number of similar individuals with the same type of problems tends to encourage the suppression of other behavior patterns, and if people are different with similar or opposite problems. Balance with patients of similar, opposing or different types tends to favor the therapeutic process. The number of patients will depend on the personality of the therapist, as well as the number of sessions and the type of treatment, being this active, relationship, authoritarian, educational, interview or