title: Marathon groups: facilitating the personal growth of male illicit drug users.
abstract: This study investigated the effects of marathon group counseling on the attitudes of imprisoned male illicit drug users. Residents selected randomly into a control and an experimental group responded to a semantic differential which included the following concepts: Kindness, Anger, Guilt, Reality, My Real Self, The Future, Drug Treatment Programs, Counselors, Counseling, and Group Counseling. The scores of the control and marathon group participants were compared on posttests by t-tests. The posttest scores of the marathon group participants were significantly higher than the scores of the control group participants on the following scales: Counselor (E), Group Counseling (E), and Drug Treatment Programs (P).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*