A Comparative Study of Six Different Inpatient Groups with Respect to Their Basic Assumption Functioning

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Seventy-five group therapy sessions of six different inpatient team groups in one short-term, one intermediate term, and one long-term psychiatric ward were studied with Group Focal Conflict Analysis and the Group Emotionality Rating System. The majority of the group sessions (41) functioned as fight–flight groups, twenty-four sessions functioned at a “pseudogroup” level, and ten sessions were dependency groups. The differences between the fight–flight groups and the dependency group on the variables aggression and dependency were highly significant statistically. A mixture of fight–flight groups and pseudogroups were found in the short-term ward with emergency obligations. The author discusses the assets and shortcomings of fight–flight and dependency cultures within psychiatric wards.

This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit: