scholarly journals Advanced Psychodrama Directing

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
Scott Giacomucci
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
Emotional Involvement ◽  
Clinical Role ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Spiral Model ◽  
Auxiliary Role

AbstractAdvanced psychodrama directing techniques are presented in this chapter. These advanced interventions offer a depiction of the level of clinical sophistication demonstrated by expert psychodrama directors. The awareness of group sociometry within the psychodrama enactment is described while portraying the multiple layers of object relations activated for participants in a psychodrama session. Advanced techniques for involving audience group members and deepening the emotional involvement of auxiliary role players are discussed. Also included in this chapter are an overview of clinical role assignments, facilitating moments of multiple protagonists, and constructively using projective identification in the group process. Content from the Therapeutic Spiral Model is offered, specifically the practice of prescribing strengths-based roles and considerations for safely facilitating scenes with trauma-based roles. Multiple strategies are offered for de-roling when more emotionally charged roles are played by group members.

Group Discussion in a Blended Environment in Engineering Education

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 508-516
Author(s):  
Deepti Mishra ◽  
Gonca Gokce Menekse Dalveren ◽  
Frode S. Volden ◽  
Carly Grace Allen
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Seating Arrangement ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Group Members

Group work is a necessary element of engineering education and group members need information about one another, group process, shared attention and mutual understanding during group discussions. There are several important elements for establishing and maintaining a group discussion such as participant’s role, seating arrangement, verbal and non-verbal cues, eye gaze, gestures etc. The present study investigates these elements for identifying the behavior of group members in a blend of traditional face-to-face discussion along with computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) setting. The results of this study have shown that, speaking duration is the key factor for identifying the leadership in a group and participants mostly used eye gazes for turn taking. Although this study is a mix of face-to-face and CSCW discussion setting, participants mostly behave like faceto- face group discussion. However, unlike the previous studies involving face-to-face discussion, the relation between seating arrangement and amount of attention is not apparent from the data during this study.

Kernberg's Object-Relations Theory and the Group Psychotherapy of Psychosis

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F.A. Milders
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psychic Process ◽  
The Individual

The application of object-relations theory to the psychotherapy of severe personality disorders owes much to the writings of Otto Kernberg. According to Kernberg, object-relations theory facilitates analysis of the psychotherapeutic process and the clarification of personality pathology. It is a concept that integrates theories of psychic process in the individual, group process and the organization of the clinical setting, and has found general support among Dutch (group) psychotherapists treating patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. However, the scope of object-relations theory is seldom addressed. When object-relations theory is separated from clinical psychiatry it can be overvalued as a universal explanatory model.

The Role of Narcissism in Group Psychotherapy

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Battegay
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Group Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Five Phases

This article analyzes five phases in the group process in which narcissism may, also on an archaic basis, be seen to be present, and its effect both on the individuals and the group process, as well as towards the conductor. The author also refers to the tasks of the therapist in respect of this narcissism, as it affects the individual, the other group members, and the group-as-a-whole.

Reversing the roles

Groupwork ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Claire Bellamy ◽  
Aileen Watson
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Core Group ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
Risk Management Process ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Group Experience

<p><i>Groupwork in a criminal justice setting has traditionally taken the form of a group of offenders undertaking a programme of structured work facilitated by (usually two) professionals. Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) represent a departure from this traditional model. The COSA model uses a group of volunteers to form a ‘Circle’ around an offender who is viewed as being very much part of the group. The approach is currently being used in the UK as part of the risk management process for convicted sex offenders who are experiencing social isolation, a factor that has been linked to the risk of re-offending. The goal of our research was to understand the COSA group process and this article presents a study of a relatively new and different approach to groupwork within criminal justice. We looked at the expectations and opinions of both core group members and volunteers to make some assessment of how this non- traditional form of groupwork operates. The research presented an almost entirely positive picture of COSA from the perspective of both the volunteers and the core group members. All Core members (and we acknowledge that the research focus is a small group of male offenders) felt that the group experience offered them support and a sense of belonging that had previously been missing in their lives.</i></p>

Importance of Projective Identification Influence on Countertransference in a Traumatized Group

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Milivojevic
Keyword(s):  
Projective Identification ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Identification Mechanism ◽  
The Way

In this paper I recount the difficulties of working with the group whose members were traumatized during the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro in 1999. The difficulties were most present in transference-countertransference relations. The focus will be the influence of the projective identification mechanism on counter-transference, and how this mechanism is used in order to express the feelings that cannot otherwise be expressed, except for the therapist to experience them. The communications aspects of Projective Identification (PI) were evident when the group members tended to provoke certain feelings and thoughts within the therapist, trying to involve him in some kind of an acting-out and so avoid anxiety related to their feelings. Therefore it was of great importance that the therapist should observe his countertransference feelings as the way for the feelings of the group members to be registered, since they cannot be registered in any other way.

Group Processes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Stangor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Group Outcomes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Effective Group ◽  
And Task

Group process refers to the behaviors of the members of small working groups (usually between three and twelve members) as they engage in decision-making and task performance. Group process includes the study of how group members’ characteristics interact with the behavior of group members to create effective or ineffective group performance. Relevant topics include the influences of group norms, group roles, group status, group identity, and group social interaction as they influence group task performance and decision-making, the development and change of groups over time, group task typologies, and decision-making schemes. Relevant group outcomes include group cohesion, process losses and process gains in performance, free riding, ineffective information sharing, difficulties in brainstorming, groupthink, and group polarization. Other variables that influence effective group process include group member diversity, task attractiveness, and task significance. A variety of techniques are used to improve group process.

Going “Beyond the Surface” in an App-Based Group: A Heuristic Inquiry

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782097450
Author(s):  
Natalie F. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Group A ◽  
Group Members

Six co-researchers conducted a heuristic inquiry of a group experience composed of hundreds of video messages, posted consistently over 4 months, via the Marco Polo smartphone application, to explore the universal implications associated with this uniquely intimate experience. This diverse, artist-led group was composed of five individuals who identify as female and one individual who identifies as non-binary, of African and African American descent, from three states in the United States, with varying levels of income and education. According to the founder, the purpose of the group was to cultivate a space for “wellness through creativity, connection, and collaboration,” primarily for herself, but also for her closest friends. A formal study was necessary to illuminate the salient themes and generate findings from this serendipitous group process. Three themes emerged: (a) the group changed over time, in alignment with long-established theories of group work (i.e., forming, storming, norming, performing, and mourning/adjourning); (b) group members navigated conflict within the group and in dyads outside of the larger group; (c) and members experienced meaningful benefits and impacts as a result of participation, which supports the growing research on online mental health support groups. Implications for future research, training, and practice are provided.

A Pragmatic Approach to Analysing CMC Discourse

2010 ◽  
pp. 759-775
Author(s):  
Christina Howell-Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Task Goal ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Group Members

A co-operative learning task relies on the mutual interdependence of group members to achieve their task goal. Where the task involves conceptual learning, this also involves argumentation and the development of joint frames of understanding. The main aim of this research study was to understand how postgraduate students conveyed their meanings and how they managed their group interaction in asynchronous online conferencing. The chapter explains the development and use of an analytic framework, based on Conversational Analysis and neo-Gricean theories of conversational meaning, to examine, code and describe the discourse behaviours and discourse strategies of postgraduate students when engaged in co-operative learning tasks in an asynchronous and text-based, online conferencing environment. The analysis indicates systematic patterning in the ways participants compose their messages and in their use of specific discourse strategies to manage the interaction of the group process and of the discussion of the conceptual material.

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