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FAP for Interpersonal Process Groups

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Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) (Kohlenberg & Tsai, 1991 ), with its behavioral focus on in vivo interactions and in-session equivalents of clients’ daily life problems, offers a compelling conceptual framework from which to conduct interpersonal group psychotherapy (Gaynor & Lawrence, 2002; Vandenberghe, Ferro, & Furtado da Cruz, 2003

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Hoekstra, R., Tsai, M. (2010). FAP for Interpersonal Process Groups . In: Kanter, J., Tsai, M., Kohlenberg, R. (eds) The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5830-3_14

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