title: Process-oriented inpatient groups: alive and well?
abstract: This paper explores the trend away from offering process-oriented groups on inpatient units, given decreasing lengths of stay, increasing acuity levels, and current biases toward psychoeducational groups and cognitive-behavioral treatments. A model for doing process-oriented groups that provides a structure while allowing a theme to emerge and maximal interaction to take place is presented. A case is made for the benefits of process-oriented inpatient groups as compared to, and complementary with, psychoeducational, cognitive, and behavioral approaches. Clinical vignettes illustrate typical themes and dynamics emerging in process-oriented inpatient groups.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Psychology at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
authors.forename: Catherine Gray
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Deering
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*