The regressed inpatient group in a graded group treatment program.
This article describes the progress of severely regressed inpatients as part of a graded group treatment program. Leaders must actively initiate structure, formulate goals, and emphasize the eventual "graduation" of patients to higher-level groups. Essential qualities of the group leaders and countertransference issues are discussed.
D003379:Countertransference; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012043:Regression, Psychology