International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
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The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977 Bernard Lubin, W. Brendan Reddy, Audrey Taylor & Alice W. Lubin To cite this article: Bernard Lubin, W. Brendan Reddy, Audrey Taylor & Alice W. Lubin (1978) The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 28:4, 509-555, DOI: 10.1080/00207284.1978.11491640 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.1978.11491640
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The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977 Summarized by BERNARD LUBIN, PH.D . , W. BRENDAN REDDY, PH.D., AUDREY TAYLOR, M.L.S., and ALICE W. LUBIN, B.S.
in publication based upon the perspective of a few years are tentative at best. Such factors as publication lag, changes in editorial policy, slight changes in search procedures , etc., can easily produce apparent rather than real changes within a short time perspective. This caveat notwithstanding, the 1977 summary contains 57 more items than were shown in the 1976 summary (Lubin et al. [206]). The overall increase has occurred despite a decrease in the number of items in the category of "small group experiences." A more than two -fold increase in writing in the family, marital, and couples therapy area between 1976 and 1977 tends to offset the apparent decrease in writing in the small group experience area. The following are a few reflections that seem to these reviewers worthy of mention. As noted under "small group experiences," although such writing has decreased and the overall amount of STATEMENTS ABOUT COMPARATIVE TRENDS
Bernard Lubin is Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology, and Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri . W. Brendan Reddy is Director, Community Psychology Institute and Associate Professor of Psychology. Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Audrey Taylor is Documents Librarian, The University of Houston Libraries, Houston, Texas. Alice W. Lubin is Training Consultant, Greater Kansas City Mental Health Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri .
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actiVIty in this area seems to have decreased, the impact of the human potential movement on traditional forms of group therapy is widespread; Lieberman's article (200) indicates that demands by "group wise" patients for change in therapist behavior, e.g., therapist transparency, is probably a more important change factor than is the therapist's theoretical position. In addition to consumerism, the group field also shows the impact of another deep-rooted American trend, volunteerism. Self-help groups as an alternative system for service delivery seem to be growing, although it is too early to determine the nature, scope, and duration of the movement. Techniques developed in one area of practice or with one population frequently are used with other populations, without a study of their suitability. With this in mind, Lakin's (189) study of naturally occurring interactions among the elderly is a hopeful precursor of the development of group interventions for this population. Poets, philosophers, and all men know that the living have failed the dying most by the "turning away" at times of greatest need. Yalom and Greaves (345) show the human enrichment for the group therapist as well as for group members that comes from maintaining psychological "cont
ISSN: 0020-7284 (Print) 1943-2836 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujgp20
The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977 Bernard Lubin, W. Brendan Reddy, Audrey Taylor & Alice W. Lubin To cite this article: Bernard Lubin, W. Brendan Reddy, Audrey Taylor & Alice W. Lubin (1978) The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 28:4, 509-555, DOI: 10.1080/00207284.1978.11491640 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.1978.11491640
Published online: 29 Oct 2015.
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The Group Psychotherapy Literature: 1977 Summarized by BERNARD LUBIN, PH.D . , W. BRENDAN REDDY, PH.D., AUDREY TAYLOR, M.L.S., and ALICE W. LUBIN, B.S.
in publication based upon the perspective of a few years are tentative at best. Such factors as publication lag, changes in editorial policy, slight changes in search procedures , etc., can easily produce apparent rather than real changes within a short time perspective. This caveat notwithstanding, the 1977 summary contains 57 more items than were shown in the 1976 summary (Lubin et al. [206]). The overall increase has occurred despite a decrease in the number of items in the category of "small group experiences." A more than two -fold increase in writing in the family, marital, and couples therapy area between 1976 and 1977 tends to offset the apparent decrease in writing in the small group experience area. The following are a few reflections that seem to these reviewers worthy of mention. As noted under "small group experiences," although such writing has decreased and the overall amount of STATEMENTS ABOUT COMPARATIVE TRENDS
Bernard Lubin is Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology, and Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri . W. Brendan Reddy is Director, Community Psychology Institute and Associate Professor of Psychology. Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Audrey Taylor is Documents Librarian, The University of Houston Libraries, Houston, Texas. Alice W. Lubin is Training Consultant, Greater Kansas City Mental Health Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri .
509
510
Bernard Lubin et al.
actiVIty in this area seems to have decreased, the impact of the human potential movement on traditional forms of group therapy is widespread; Lieberman's article (200) indicates that demands by "group wise" patients for change in therapist behavior, e.g., therapist transparency, is probably a more important change factor than is the therapist's theoretical position. In addition to consumerism, the group field also shows the impact of another deep-rooted American trend, volunteerism. Self-help groups as an alternative system for service delivery seem to be growing, although it is too early to determine the nature, scope, and duration of the movement. Techniques developed in one area of practice or with one population frequently are used with other populations, without a study of their suitability. With this in mind, Lakin's (189) study of naturally occurring interactions among the elderly is a hopeful precursor of the development of group interventions for this population. Poets, philosophers, and all men know that the living have failed the dying most by the "turning away" at times of greatest need. Yalom and Greaves (345) show the human enrichment for the group therapist as well as for group members that comes from maintaining psychological "cont
