title: Group therapy with rheumatoid arthritic patients.
abstract: A husband-wife co-therapist team, in clinical collaboration with rheumatologists of the Phoenix Arthritis Center, has instituted a brief inpatient group therapy program in an arthritis unit of a general medical hospital. Problems of initiating the group are presented. Both preliminary findings and research possibilities are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001130:Arizona; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000523:psychology*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D011889:Rage; D012106:Research