Other Therapeutic Factors and Leader Interventions

Author(s):  
Sally H. Barlow

Chapter 6 explores other therapeutic factors and leader interventions. A skilled group therapist utilizes proven leader interventions and therapeutic factors , such as insight, interpersonal learning, catharsis, installation of hope, all of which occur as the group developmental processes unfold over time from group beginning to group termination (forming, storming, norming, performing).

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Ann Erdman

Abstract The purpose of this article is to describe therapeutic factors that constitute mechanisms of change in group intervention. These therapeutic factors occur in groups with varied populations in varied settings and have important implications for group approaches to aural/audiologic rehabilitation. Factors included in the review are universality, instillation of hope, imparting information, altruism, imitative behavior, group cohesion, interpersonal learning, development of socializing techniques, recapitulation of the family, catharsis, and existential issues. The discussions largely are based on Irvin Yalom’s therapeutic factors but include references from a wide-range of sources throughout the medical, psychological, and rehabilitative fields.


Author(s):  
F. Ralph Berberich

This chapter reviews an oft neglected aspect of pediatric pain, namely that which accumulates over time in office settings, a series of recurring “minor” insults. Relatively little attention is paid to this office-related pain as it often is considered tolerable, even acceptable, and not worthy of systematic efforts and policies to reduce it. Office pain seems to lack the weight associated with more consequent procedures carried out in hospitals. The section includes general principles addressing pain reduction, pain that accompanies normative developmental processes such as teething, colic and “growing pains”; pain resulting from infections such as otitis media and pharyngitis; and pain from office procedures such as circumcision and foreign body removal.


2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiranjit Longaker ◽  
Gabriel Tornusciolo

This paper describes how Yoga groups have been implemented as a form of interpersonal group therapy with adolescent males who have experienced severe trauma in their lives. It discusses how over time these groups have evolved to exhibit 11 therapeutic factors that are necessary for effective interpersonal group therapy. It then describes the ways in which these groups help the members begin to cope with and heal from the effects of their trauma without having to rely on traditional"talk" therapy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4pt2) ◽  
pp. 1215-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Alan Sroufe

AbstractProgress in the field of developmental psychopathology is appraised in general and with regard to the particular lens of our understanding of the development of disorder. In general, the outpouring of research on various features of disorder and underlying processes could not have even been imagined 25 years ago. The progress is dazzling. At the same time, work on the development of disorders, beginning with antecedent patterns of adaptation, pales in comparison with work on the correlates of disorder. However, progress has been made. It is well established that the brain develops in the context of experience and that organism and environment continually interact over time. Something is now known about pathways leading to certain disorders and what initiates and impels individuals along them. If developmental psychopathology is to completely fulfill its promise of offering new ways of conceptualizing disorder and new guidance for prevention and intervention, much more work on developmental processes and a new way of exploring the development of disorder will be needed. Such a path is suggested.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1185-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tripathi ◽  
A. D. Liese ◽  
J. M. Jerrell ◽  
J. Zhang ◽  
A. A. Rizvi ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Batra ◽  
Silvia A. Bunge ◽  
Emilio Ferrer

Studying development processes, as they unfold over time, involves collecting repeated measures from individuals and modeling the changes over time. One methodological challenge in this type of longitudinal data is separating retest effects, due to the repeated assessments, from developmental processes such as maturation or age. In this article, we describe several specifications of latent change score models using age as the underlying time metric and include parameters to account for retest effects. We illustrate the models with data on fluid reasoning collected from children and adolescents in a cohort-sequential design ranging from 6 to 20 years. Our models include alternative approaches to specify retest effects at the structural or measurement level of the model, and as an observed or a latent covariate. We discuss the benefits and limitations of the different approaches for univariate and multivariate data in the context of studying developmental processes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna Murray-Close ◽  
Betsy Hoza ◽  
Stephen P. Hinshaw ◽  
L. Eugene Arnold ◽  
James Swanson ◽  
...  

AbstractWe examined the developmental processes involved in peer problems among children (M age = 10.41 years) previously diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at study entry (N = 536) and a comparison group (N = 284). Participants were followed over a 6-year period ranging from middle childhood to adolescence. At four assessment periods, measures of aggression, social skills, positive illusory biases (in the social and behavioral domains), and peer rejection were assessed. Results indicated that children from the ADHD group exhibited difficulties in each of these areas at the first assessment. Moreover, there were vicious cycles among problems over time. For example, peer rejection was related to impaired social skills, which in turn predicted later peer rejection. Problems also tended to spill over into other areas, which in turn compromised functioning in additional areas across development, leading to cascading effects over time. The findings held even when controlling for age and were similar for males and females, the ADHD and comparison groups, and among ADHD treatment groups. The results suggest that the peer problems among children with and without ADHD may reflect similar processes; however, children with ADHD exhibit greater difficulties negotiating important developmental tasks. Implications for interventions are discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.


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