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Articles tagged "group therapy".
17 articles
Increasing Accessibility to a Brief, Couple-Based Group Intervention for Veterans and their Intimate Partners: A Quality Improvement Project
Introduction Veterans experience relationship difficulties including divorce (Cohan et al., 2005; Mouritsen & Rastogi, 2013) and intimate partner violence (McGinn et al., 2017) at higher rates compared to non-Veterans. Veteran intimate relationships also present risk and protective factors for Veteran mental health service utilization (Logan et al., 2012), morbidity (Bolkan et al., 2013; Martin et […]
Narayan B. Singh, PhD, ABPP + 4 more
May 19, 2025
Neurobiological Synchrony and Group Psychotherapy: A Potential Path Forward for Group Process and Outcomes Research
A Potential Path Forward for Group Process and Outcomes Research Recent research on therapist-patient neurobiological synchrony in individual psychotherapy has suggested a potential connection between biological synchrony and therapeutic change mechanisms (Zilcha-Mano et al., 2021). This type of burgeoning research is an exciting step forward in psychotherapy process and outcomes research, given the extent to […]
Kelly Gleischman, MAT + 1 more
December 3, 2024
The Impact of Social Connection in the Treatment of Addiction in Veterans
Introduction It is well understood that Veterans and those in active duty strongly identify with their brothers and sisters at arms and experience common struggles associated with the throes of military service. They obtain a sense of purpose, belonging, and connectedness when in the presence of other Veterans, notably because they are part of a […]
Justin Trapani, PsyD
December 17, 2022
Space, Boundaries, and Presence
Online psychotherapy is not new. Group therapy using videoconferencing is not new. What is new, however, is having to start online treatment for the first time in the midst of a global pandemic. Usually, before COVID-19, therapists who provided telehealth services had gone through a planned and thoughtful process of figuring out online work, including […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 3, 2020
Stranger Things and Social Skills
If you have seen Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” watched the long-standing TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” or were friends with gamers in the last 45 years, you’ve likely had at least a passing exposure to Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), one of the most popular table-top role-playing games (TTRPG). Though D&D unduly provoked fear among those […]
Elizabeth D. Kilmer, M.S. + 1 more
August 4, 2019
Progress Feedback in Group Therapy
Treatment Feedback and Success Monitoring Treatment Success Measuring the success of treatment can involve many criteria, one being change on some outcome (e.g., psychiatric distress) to normal or improved levels (Kazdin, 2016; Lambert, 2015). Wampold (2015) noted that routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and its feedback to clinicians is now well-supported and should be adopted wherever […]
Hal Svien, B.S. + 2 more
June 9, 2019
Want to Know Your Blind Spots? Ask Your Clients!
While there is little debate about whether psychotherapy works, there remains disagreement about how it works (Barlow, 2004; Lilienfeld, Ritschel, Lynn, Cautin, & Latzman, 2014; Lorenzo-Luaces, German, & DeDubeis, 2014; Messer & Wampold, 2002; Shafran et al., 2009; Tracey, Wampold, Lichtenberg, & Goodyear, 2014; Wampold, 2015). This lack of consensus has understandably led to continued […]
Sean Woodland, Ph.D.
February 17, 2019
The Group Questionnaire
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) represents a standard of practice as clinicians seek increasingly effective ways to provide therapeutic services to their clients. Comprised of three main approaches, EBP seeks to apply a structured, systematic approach to the provision of therapy through the use of empirically supported treatments, practice guidelines, and practice based evidence (Burlingame & Beecher, […]
Klinton Hobbs, Ph.D. + 5 more
January 20, 2019
Developing a Therapeutic Relationship Monitoring System for Group Treatment
Abstract The use of outcome monitoring systems to identify clients that are at-risk for treatment failure has now become part of daily clinical practice, shown in 25 empirical studies to improve client outcomes. These promising findings have led to outcome monitoring systems being recognized as evidence-based. Feedback systems based on client perception of therapeutic processes […]
Rebecca A. Janis + 2 more
June 6, 2018
Understanding the Hows and Whys of Group Therapy
In the competition between therapy modalities in the United States today, group psychotherapy is clearly on the ropes. As I write these words, the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP) of the American Psychological Association is considering another petition offered by APA Division 49 (Group Psychotherapy) to have group […]
Nancy W. Kelly, Ph.D., LCSW
August 6, 2017
Individual vs. Group Psychotherapy
Psychotherapists are becoming busier every day and are constantly trying to manage the many different responsibilities they have with the increase in demand for psychological services. Responsibilities can include assessment, treatment planning, clinical preparation, individual therapy, group therapy, case management, case consultation, documentation, coordinating care, supervision, training, and outreach. One setting that has been heavily […]
Jyssica Seebeck + 2 more
June 25, 2017
Explaining Therapeutic Change in Residential Wilderness Therapy Groups
Residential wilderness therapy or adventure therapy is “the prescriptive use of adventure experiences provided by mental health professionals, often conducted in natural settings that kinesthetically engage clients on cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels.” (Gass, Gillis & Russell, 2012 p.1). The term adventure therapy is used in the literature interchangeably with “wilderness therapy” (Russell, 2001) and […]
Harold L. (Lee) Gillis, Ph.D. + 1 more
February 26, 2017