MGA0003

Introduction to clinical group psychotherapy

15 seminars of 1.5 hours

Objectives On completion of this subject students will have further developed their theoretical understanding of group functioning and application of this to the task of conducting a group. They will also have a clearer knowledge of difficulties encountered with borderline and difficult patients in group.
Synopsis The aim of this subject is to prepare students for selection of patients for group psychotherapy, to introduce them to the role of being a group conductor and to work with anxieties covering borderline and difficult patients. The emphasis is on application of psychoanalytic theory already understood, to clinical aspects of group psychotherapy. Topics are as follows: selection of patients and preparation for commencing group psychotherapy; role of the conductor in analytic group psychotherapy; containing psychotic anxieties in groups; group psychotherapy with the borderline patient; the difficult patient in group; and terminations and premature departures from the group.

Assessment Written assessment of 3000 words: 100%

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