title: A multidisciplinary course to teach staff to conduct psychodynamic group psychotherapy for assaultive men.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A course in leading psychodynamic psychotherapy groups for assaultive men.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To teach multidisciplinary staff members to lead these groups, using both didactic and experiential learning.
  
  
  METHODS
  The author's own experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Multidisciplinary staff members learned about the process of leading psychotherapy groups for assaultive men by attending lectures and observing the author lead a group over a 6-month period. The author's openness about her own thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and countertransference allowed students to explore their own reactions and to empathize with the patients, observing that they were not so different from them.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Service for Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lanza
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*