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A process recording for evaluating group psychotherapy training methods

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This paper discusses an exploratory investigation concerned with the long range questions: How does group psychotherapy help patients? and How can psychiatry residency programs best train residents to treat patients in therapeutic groups? Group psychotherapy has come to be accepted in its own right as a decisive contribution to the study of and relief of emotional disorders. As a component of comprehensive psychiatric services it is indispensable. However, while its clinical value has been demonstrated, its scientific validity has not. A Group Process Inventory has been developed by the author and has been utilized for the past two years by psychiatric residents in recording the process of their therapeutic groups in a teaching hospital mental hygiene clinic. The preliminary use of this recording as a clinical-teaching instrument has proven effective. This inventory is being revised to serve as a research instrument.

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  1. Albert Einstein Medical College, USA

    Carl Goldberg Ph.D., F.A.G.P.A. (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

  2. Group Psychotherapy Program, Department of Psychiatry, City Hospital at Elmhurst (Mt. Sinai Hospital), USA

    Carl Goldberg Ph.D., F.A.G.P.A. (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

  3. Suite 1A, 145 Central Park West, 10023, New York, NY

    Carl Goldberg Ph.D., F.A.G.P.A. (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director)

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Goldberg, C. A process recording for evaluating group psychotherapy training methods. Group 8, 29–34 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01457245

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