Complexity at the “Edge” of the Basic-Assumption Group*

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Basic Assumption Group

scholarly journals A Psychiatric Residency in the Era of COVID-19: A Bionian Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-270
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Lim ◽  
Zachary B. Harris ◽  
Marissa P. Caan
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Administrative Leadership ◽  
Psychiatric Residency ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Basic Assumption Group

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently ravaging health systems across the world. Psychiatric trainees are at risk of exposure to patients with COVID-19 given their clinical roles in emergency and inpatient psychiatric settings. This article represents a case study of group dynamics in which we reflect on our own experience as psychiatric residents at a Boston-area hospital system in the era of COVID-19 and apply Wilfred Bion's concepts of the “work group” and the “basic assumption group” processes of group operation. We assess dynamics between trainees and administrative leadership both at baseline and in the current pandemic. Since navigation through crises is more effective if group leadership recognizes and responds to basic assumption behaviors, we propose suggestions to enable health system administration to successfully lead health care organizations through periods of societal turmoil. We posit that these principles apply across settings, specialties, and provider types. In addition, we use our observations to indicate future directions for expanding Bion's theories in the contemporary context.

Bion's Group Psychotherapy for Dramatic Personality Disorders: An Empirical Study in a Public Mental Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s782-s782
Author(s):  
M. Pacetti ◽  
M. Liotta ◽  
F. Ambrosini ◽  
R.P. Sant’Angelo
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Basic Assumption Group ◽  
Competing Interest

Educational objectivesPsychotherapy is the most preferable intervention for personality disorder patients and group psychotherapy offers the possibility to increase the self-perception through resonance and mirroring processes. When a group is disorganized and emotionally tensioned generates regressive movements, which make it a basic assumption group.PurposeTo highlight the change of a group of patients after the inclusion of a new patient named Margherita.MethodsThe patients were included within the group run by two psychotherapists after a cluster B personality disorder's clinical diagnosis (except for antisocial personality disorder), confirmed by SCID II and by a set of individual interviews aimed to prepare the patient to the inclusion within the group.ResultsMargherita, from the first sessions, showed the tendency to coercively polarize the attention on herself through themes of discouragement and helplessness, posing a threat for the members’ identity and resulting in a disorganization of the work group, which became a basic assumption group.ConclusionsThe temporary disorganization of the group with the consequent regression to a worse functioning condition has subsequently allowed to revitalize the group and to avoid its dissolution. After the temporary regression, indeed, the work group was restored and started again to function even based on the new patient's problems.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

The Behavior and Personality of Work Group and Basic Assumption Group Members

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Lion ◽  
Leopold W. Gruenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Basic Assumption Group ◽  
Group Members

Principles of Solution Focused Therapy and Their Application to Audiology

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
James C. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Client Centered Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Solution Focused Therapy

The concept of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1951) has influenced many professions to refocus their treatment of clients from assessment outcomes to the person who uses the information from this assessment. The term adopted for use in the professions of Communication Sciences and Disorders and encouraged by The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is patient-centered care, with the goal of helping professions, like audiology, focus more centrally on the patient. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the principles used in a patient-centered therapy approach first described by de Shazer (1985) named Solution-Focused Therapy and how these principles might apply to the practice of audiology. The basic assumption behind this model is that people are the agents of change and the professional is there to help guide and enable clients to make the change the client wants to make. This model then is focused on solutions, not on the problems. It is postulated that by using the assumptions in this model audiologists will be more effective in a shorter time than current practice may allow.

METODE TAMYIZ (Sebuah Formulasi Teori Nahwu Shorof Quantum)

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Mukroji Mukroji
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Small Child

To be able to read and write and translate the Arabic writing, then the required mastery of nahwu shorof adequate. constraints faced by students during this time is the difficulty of formulating theories and nahwu shorof shorof yellow book with an easy way of learning. These constraints are: must learn to read the book and nahwu shorof; must learn to translate the book; must learn to understand the theory of the book; must learn to apply thetheory of the book is on the yellow book, even on a particular book should memorize nadhom. Tamyiz method is innovation and new breakthroughs in quantum nahwu shorof learning. With the basic assumption that a small child can, a small ever can. Submission of material is so fun from easy to difficult, so students do not feel pressured, even students without the burden of memorizing and translating the Qur'anic verses with ease. And Tamyiz this method is really a method that is able to deliver the students and those studying this method can quickly translate the Qur'an. Untuk dapat membaca dan menulis serta menterjemahkan tulisan yang berbahasa Arab, maka dibutuhkan penguasaan ilmu nahwu shorof yang memadai. kendala yang dihadapi santri selama ini adalah sulitnya memformulasikan teori nahwu dan shorof dengan cara pembelajaran yang mudah. Kendala tersebut adalah : harus belajar membaca kitab nahwu dan shorof; harus belajar menerjemahkan kitab tersebut; harus belajar memahami teori kitab tersebut; harus belajar mengaplikasikan teori kitab tersebut pada kitab kuning, bahkan pada kitab tertentu harus menghafal nadhom. Metode Tamyiz merupakan inovasi dan terobosan baru dalam pembelajaran nahwu shorof quantum. Dengan asumsi dasar bahwa anak kecil saja bisa, yang pernah kecil pasti bisa. Penyampaian materi begitu menyenangkan dari yang mudah ke yang sulit, sehingga santri tidak merasa tertekan, bahkan santri tanpa beban menghafal dan menterjemahkan ayat-ayat Qur‟an dengan mudah. Dan metode Tamyiz ini benar-benar sebuah metode yang mampu mengantarkan para santri dan mereka yang belajar metode ini dapat menterjemahkan Qur‟an dengan cepat.

Participation and spatial transformation in large housing estates in Poland. Case study of Ursynów Północny

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Krystyna Ilmurzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Large Housing Estates ◽  
Existing Housing ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract This article investigates the suitability of traditional and participatory planning approaches in managing the process of spatial development of existing housing estates, based on the case study of Warsaw’s Ursynów Północny district. The basic assumption of the article is that due to lack of government schemes targeted at the restructuring of large housing estates, it is the business environment that drives spatial transformations and through that shapes the development of participation. Consequently the article focuses on the reciprocal relationships between spatial transformations and participatory practices. Analysis of Ursynów Północny against the background of other estates indicates that it presents more endangered qualities than issues to be tackled. Therefore the article focuses on the potential of the housing estate and good practices which can be tracked throughout its lifetime. The paper focuses furthermore on real-life processes, addressing the issue of privatisation, development pressure, formal planning procedures and participatory budgeting. In the conclusion it attempts to interpret the existing spatial structure of the estate as a potential framework for a participatory approach.

Social Capital and the Development of Political Support in Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Hooghe ◽  
Anna Kern
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The One ◽  
Democratic Norms

This chapter evaluates the claim that the decline of legitimacy is due to a decline of social capital. The idea that voluntary associations play an important role in establishing social cohesion and political support is a traditional insight in the field of political sociology. The basic assumption is that voluntary associations function as a training ground for democracy, where citizens involved acquire democratic norms and skills that they subsequently apply in their relation with the political system. If this argument is correct, political support should be at least partly influenced by citizens’ participation in civil society organizations. Using European Social Survey data from 2006 and 2012 the authors demonstrate that there is a clear and significant correlation between social involvement on the one hand and satisfaction with the working of democracy and political trust on the other, which largely survives the introduction of a range of control variables.

scholarly journals Dependence Modeling in Energy Markets using Sibuya-type Copulas

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Nikolai Kolev ◽  
Jayme Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Dependence Structure ◽  
Dependence Function ◽  
Dependence Modeling ◽  
Goodness Of Fit Tests ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Error Terms ◽  
Time Invariant

The dependence structure between 756 prices for futures on crude oil and natural gas traded on NYMEX is analyzed  using  a combination of novel time-series and copula tools.  We model the log-returns on each commodity individually by Generalized Autoregressive Score models and account for dependence between them by fitting various copulas to corresponding  error terms. Our basic assumption is that the dependence structure may vary over time, but the ratio between the joint distribution of error terms and the product of marginal distributions (e.g., Sibuya's dependence function) remains the same, being time-invariant.  By performing conventional goodness-of-fit tests, we select the best copula, being member of the currently  introduced class of  Sibuya-type copulas.

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