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Well-Being as a Precursor and Consequence of Micro-Processes in a Group Psychotherapy With Forensic Patients

Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020-06, Vol.11, p.409-409 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2020 Frontiers Research Foundation ;Copyright © 2020 Bieg, Ross, Bulla, Kluttig and Fontao 2020 Bieg, Ross, Bulla, Kluttig and Fontao ;ISSN: 1664-0640 ;EISSN: 1664-0640 ;DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00409 ;PMID: 32581857

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  • Title:
    Well-Being as a Precursor and Consequence of Micro-Processes in a Group Psychotherapy With Forensic Patients
  • Author: Bieg, Madeleine ; Ross, Thomas ; Bulla, Jan ; Kluttig, Tilman ; Fontao, María Isabel
  • Subjects: addiction ; Analysis ; Care and treatment ; forensic psychotherapy ; Group counseling ; Mental illness ; offender treatment ; Psychiatry ; Psychological aspects ; Psychotherapy ; therapeutic process research ; well-being
  • Is Part Of: Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020-06, Vol.11, p.409-409
  • Description: Psychotherapy is an important approach for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Apart from treating disorders as such, psychotherapy aims at increasing patients' well-being. The Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM) is a process-oriented theoretical model that makes predictions about the psychotherapeutic progress based on verbatim content. The model helps to identify therapeutic factors on a language level. The present study aims at analyzing transcripts of group therapy sessions with forensic psychiatric patients using the rationale of the TCM. Furthermore, the relationship between linguistic features of psychotherapy sessions and patients' well-being before and after therapy are investigated. In order to identify therapeutic factors, a group psychotherapy with nine drug addicted forensic psychiatric patients was videotaped and transcripts of N = 16 sessions were analyzed. Process-oriented measures were rated by the patients, their therapists, and an external observer. Patients' self-reported well-being before therapy was negatively related to Connecting (indicating emotional insight), and the frequency of therapeutic cycles, which are both thought of as key moments in therapy. Well-being of forensic patients is not necessarily a helpful precursor for insightful and productive events in therapy to occur. The findings help to better understand psychotherapeutic micro-processes throughout forensic therapies, and their relationship with patients' well-being. Implications for research and the forensic practice are discussed.
  • Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1664-0640
    EISSN: 1664-0640
    DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00409
    PMID: 32581857
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