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Group Members’ Assessment of Their Conductor in Small Analytic Group
Mirela Vlastelica
Ivan Urlić
Sažetak
In this pilot study the authors present the group members’ assessment of their conductor
in group analysis – the treatment conducted in accordance with concept »groupas-
a-whole« of S. H. Foulkes. There will be presented the results obtained by scale for
evaluation of characteristics of the group therapist. In the scale, developed by the authors
of the study, there were 30 items and by factorial analysis it gave three interpretable
factors: authenticity, empathy and distrust. By self-evaluation the members of three
small groups, i.e. 20 patients, ranked characteristics of their conductor. The patients,
assessing the degree of their accordance with 30 items of the evaluation scale, expressed
whether and how much they experienced their conductor as an authentic, empathic and
trustworthy person. While in the beginning of the group analytic process the conductor’s
role was important, his importance decreased as the group-as-a-whole developed. Group
experience became more important than the conductor. In other words, the group itself
became the therapist, what is one more the proof of the Foulkes’ concept of »the groupas-
a-whole«.
Ključne riječi
psychotherapy; group analysis; conductor
Hrčak ID:
28062
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.12.2004.
Posjeta: 1.220 *