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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku Group Climate Development in Brief Group Therapies: A Comparison Between Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy and Group Psychotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
Námsstig: 
  • Meistara
Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    This study was designed to explore differences in group climate development between two brief group therapies, cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) and group psychotherapy (GPT), using multilevel growth curve analysis. Participants were 42 university students with a primary diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (SAD), randomly assigned to either of the two treatment conditions. Each group consisted of eight, weekly 2-hour sessions and members completed the Group Climate Questionnaire after each session. Similar patterns were found in both treatment conditions; engagement rose linearly throughout the sessions, avoidance decreased linearly, and conflict was overall low. The results support the hypothesis that brief group therapies (consisting of less than 10 sessions) will stay in the engagement phase of MacKenzie’s four-stage developmental model. There was more avoidance and less conflict in the CBGT groups compared to GPT, reflecting the more dynamic and interactional nature of the latter treatment. Conflict was lower than reported in previous studies, which may be due to the SAD diagnosis of group members. Future directions involve studying interactions between group climate dimensions and treatment conditions as they relate to treatment outcome.

Samþykkt: 
  • 11.3.2014
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/17445


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