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Transformational moments in group psychotherapy
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Transformational moments in group psychotherapy
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Kramer
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Yair
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1983-
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Yair Kramer
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David
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David Panzer
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chair
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Riggs Skean
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Karen
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Karen Riggs Skean
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internal member
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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2012
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2012-10
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eng
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Psychodynamic group therapy is a widely used and empirically established form of group treatment. After establishing the effectiveness of group therapy, researchers have turned their focus to how psychodynamic group therapy helps its members. This study aims to understand which types of experiences with facilitators and other group members are helpful for participants. Further, the study explores what may have contributed to helpful experiences as well as the perceived effect of those moments on the lives of the group therapy participants. With a better understanding of transformational moments, therapists will be more likely to facilitate transformational experiences in group settings. This study used a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews with group therapists that have at least twenty years of experience. Nine group therapists participated in the study; each provided a case example of an experience that occurred in the therapy groups they facilitate, which they believe was transformational for a member. The significant themes that arose from the interviews conducted revealed that transformational moments often involve members taking interpersonal risks; members being authentic and honest with one another; and therapists being supportive and encouraging of direct and open communication. Therapists also viewed their role at times as redirecting the interpersonal approach of members to insure that people were not overwhelmed or harmed by the open communication with one another. The therapists interviewed believe that being in a community where the focus is joining together to be deeply known and to deeply understand others are important elements in allowing transformational experiences to take place.
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Clinical Psychology
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113 p. : ill.
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Psy.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Yair Kramer
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Group psychotherapy
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Group psychotherapists--Interviews
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doi:10.7282/T3VH5MNW
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Kramer
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Yair
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2012-09-12 19:52:29
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Yair Kramer
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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