Some comments on the use of untrained therapists.

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A study by Poser, where chronic schizophrenics received group psychotherapy from both untrained and trained therapists, is discussed. The experimental design of the study is questioned: the time factor, male patients treated by female untrained therapists, dropouts, and selection of untrained therapists. The term "group psychotherapy" is poorly defined in this study, since the term covers a variety of therapeutic goals and orientations. The question of criteria becomes obscured. There is no clarification of the motives that bring psychotherapists to work with patients. The lack of clarity confuses workers in the field of psychotherapy since "help" is an ambiguous term which represents everything from compassion to personality change. Motivations and value systems of both patients and therapists must be considered in the type of study Poser has conducted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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