What is it about?
Relational Group Psychotherapy emphasizes the healing power of relationships amoung group members, the importance of phenomenological inquiry, affective attunement, validation, respect, identification, and each individual’s relational-needs. The leader’s tasks include stimulating the flow of contactful dialogue and to teaching about human needs and healthy relationships.
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Why is it important?
This article defines and describes a humanistic and relationally focused group psychotherapy.
Perspectives
Several models have influenced the development of relational group psychotherapy: therapy-by-the-group; therapy-by-interpretation; therapy-in-the-group; and therapy-through-the-group. The dialectic between the “feedback” and the “person-centered” trends is described and an integration of models is proposed.
Dr Richard G. Erskine
ITAA
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This page is a summary of: Relational Group Process, Transactional Analysis Journal, October 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0362153713515179.
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