Presented under the auspices of the Research Special Interest Group

Chair:              

Shawn Taylor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois       

Discussant:           

Bernhard Strauss, Ph.D. Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology,

University Hospital Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany          

Title: A Closer Look at Therapist and Client Responses:

Intercorrelation Matrices for the Helping Skills System

and the Client Behavior System

Author: Zipora Shectman, Ph.D., (Haifa University, Israel)

Title: Predicting Outcome in Short-term Group Psychotherapy with Somatoform Disorders

Authors: Volker Tschuschke, Ph.D., Germany; Rainer Weber, M.D., University of Cologne, Germany; Markus Breiner, M.D., Elke Horn, M.D., Jürgen Ott, M.D., Wolfgang Tress, M.D. (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)

Title: The Group Selection Questionnaire: Further Refinements in Group Member Selection

Authors: John Cox, Ph.D. Candidate, Gary Burlingame, Ph.D.,CGP, Rob Davies Ph.D. Candidate, Robert Gleave, Ph.D., CGP, Sally Barlow, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP (Brigham Young University)

Title: Psychiatrist-led Outpatient Group Psychotherapy for the Chronically Mentally Ill

Authors: Leslie Hartley Gise, M.D., Annette Crisanti, Ph.D., Robert Randall, Ph.D., Dana Kiyabu, R.N. (University of Hawaii)

Title: Revising the Group CORE Battery: A Preliminary Report

Authors: Gary Burlingame, Ph.D., CGP (Brigham Young University), Bernhard Strauss, Ph.D. (Friedrich-Schiller-University) K. Roy MacKenzie, M.D., FRCP(C), DFAGPA, CGP (University of British Columbia), Anthony Joyce, Ph.D. (University of Alberta), Shawn Taylor, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), John Ogrodniczuk, Ph.D.  (University of British Colombia), Rebecca McNair Seamands, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina)

Research in group psychotherapy continues to demonstrate the clinical

utility of this modality, and to assist in the development and validation of

various treatment techniques. Presenters will detail findings from research

projects they use conducting, and a senior discussant will critique these

findings, relating them to clinical practice.

Course References:

1. Burlingame, G., MacKenzie, K. and Strauss, B. (2003). Small Group Treatment: Evidence for

    Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change. In M. Lambert (Ed.), Bergin and Garfield's Handbook

    of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, 647-696. New York: Wiley.

2. Green, L. (2000). Group Psychotherapy Research: Current Status and Future Trends on the Dawn

    of a New Millennium. Group, 24(2-3), 157-165.

3. Shectman, Z. (2002). Child group psychotherapy in the School at the Threshold of a New

    Millennium. Journal of Counseling and Development, 80(3), 293-299.