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Conference report: psychotherapy for older adults
- Author:
- BLOOMFIELD Irene
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 13(4), December 1995, pp.310-311.
Until recently psychotherapy for older people has been regarded unfavourably by the majority of psychotherapists. Explains why this is the case and reports from a conference where there is a large commitment to providing therapeutic help for older people.
The 'us too' groups: a psychodynamic perspective on impact of parental mental ill-health
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Sue, BELL Mandy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 50, January 2001, pp.16-20.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Faced with increasing referrals of children of parents with an enduring mental illness, the authors of the Gloucestershire Young Carers Project set up a support group for young carers. Here, they offer a psychodynamic perspective on the experience of running the group and reflect on some lessons for the future.
Betrayed as boys: psychodynamic treatment of sexually abused men
- Author:
- GARTNER Richard B
- Publisher:
- Guilford Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 368p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Discusses psychotherapy for male adult survivors of child sexual abuse, with reference to masculinity, same-sex abuse, the familial and cultural context of abuse, dissociative disorders, the relationship between therapist and client, and group therapy.
Late-life depression and functional disability: the role of the goal-focused group psychotherapy
- Authors:
- KLAUSNER Ellen J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(10), October 1998, pp.707-716.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article compares the efficacy of two time-limited group psychotherapies for depression and functional disability in late life. Goal-focused group psychotherapy (GRGP) utilised focused psychoeducation and skills training to assist each patient in the achievement of individualised goals. Reminiscence therapy (RT) emphasised individual life review to facilitate discussion. Finds that whereas both treatment groups improved in depressed mood and disability, GFGP subjects had a far greater change in depressive symptomatology and also improved in the areas of hope, hopelessness, anxiety and social functioning.
Community, care and quality: a lesson from group psychotherapy - making connections in the face of the drive forwards fragmentation
- Authors:
- LANDAU Naomi, WALLBANK Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 9(1), Spring 1995, pp.63-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Examines what is meant by the terms 'community', 'care' and 'quality' in current mental health practice. Using their own experience of successful group psychotherapy project, they offer a creative reinterpretation of these core concepts which supposedly underpin the present shift towards community-based services. They argue for a reaffirmation of the mental health practitioner's therapeutic role in helping severely damaged clients to make connections - both within themselves and between themselves and the outside world - at a time when the drive towards fragmentation of service provision poses an additional threat to the precarious mental health of this client group.
Psychotherapy for sexually abused girls: psychopathological outcome findings and patterns of change
- Authors:
- TROWELL J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 180, March 2002, pp.234-247.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study compares the reflective efficacy of focused individual or group therapy in sexually abused girls with mental health problems and to monitor psychiatric symptoms for persistence or change. Both treatment groups showed a substantial reduction in symptoms of mental ill-health and an improvement in functioning, but with no evident difference between individual and group therapy. However, individual therapy led to a greater improvement in manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The beneficial effects on PTSD support the use of individual therapy.
Groupwork with children and adolescents: a handbook
- Editor:
- DWIVEDI Kedar Nath
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 357p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Section 1 is on theoretical and practical issues. Section 2 deals with developmental perspectives, including emotional, empathy and prosocial development. Section 3 looks at tools and techniques, including activities, exercises, games, art therapy, relaxation, visualisation, drama therapy and use of interpretation. Section 4 deals with subjects and themes such as bereavement, sexual abuse, encopresis, groupwork with young offenders, and race, identity and culture. Section 5 examines contexts and settings for groupwork such as schools, residential child care, child mental health services, the youth service, and therapeutic communities.
Mental health in schools: what about the staff?
- Author:
- JACKSON Emil
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 28(2), August 2002, pp.129-146.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
This article describes how work discussion groups offered to staff on-site as part of a mental health in schools outreach project can have a significant impact on the thinking, attitudes and culture within a school. Through the use of some detailed examples of these work discussion groups in action, it is shown how these groups can enable staff to enhance their observational skills, develop a deeper understanding of the factors that impact on learning, behaviour and teaching, and reduce staff stress. Such groups not only extend staff skills in engaging with pupils at risk of emotional breakdown and school exclusion, but can also promote a learning environment for all, in which development and growth is promoted at a personal, professional and whole-school level.
A handbook of research for the helping professions
- Author:
- SUTTON Carole
- Publisher:
- Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 425p., tables, diags., bibliog
- Place of publication:
- London