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Group therapy with mothers of incest victims, Part I: Structure, leader attributes, and countertransference

✍ Scribed by Eleanor Guzzi DelPo; Mary Ann Koontz

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 510 KB
Volume: 5
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-8228
DOI: 10.1016/s0883-9417(05)80018-4

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✦ Synopsis

Reality-based, ego-supportive group therapy is an intervention with mothers of children who were sexually abused by a father, stepfather, or man in the paternal role. Structure and process of a mothers' group that was co-led by the authors and met weekly for 2 years are described in this two part article. In Part I of this article, the structure of the Mothers' Group is described: setting and referral sources, purpose and goals, format, and group composition. Also discussed are the Influence of leader attributes on group process, therapeutic interventions related to these attributes, and strategies to handle the potential for countertransference and minimize its antitherapeutic effects.

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