ABSTRACT

The group climate, cohesion, and alliance with the leaders are critical elements of effective group psychotherapy. Although there has been significant attention to these curative mechanisms, there has been less attention to ruptures in the group relationships or the repair of them. The current special issue is devoted to theory, research, training, and practice regarding ruptures and repairs in group treatment. Contemporary and more traditional theorists describe how ruptures facilitate change in group therapy. Researchers apply the empirical findings on ruptures in individual therapy to group therapy and describe how ruptures can be measured. Group therapists also address how group leaders can contribute to ruptures and their subsequent repair. This introduction to the special issue concludes with the implications for practice and a call for future research that will help us fully understand how ruptures affect group process and outcomes in group work.

 抽象的

团体氛围、凝聚力以及与领导者的联盟是有效团体心理治疗的关键要素。尽管人们对这些治疗机制给予了极大的关注，但对群体关系破裂或修复的关注却较少。本期特刊致力于有关团体治疗中的破裂和修复的理论、研究、培训和实践。当代和更传统的理论家描述了破裂如何促进团体治疗的改变。研究人员将个体治疗中破裂的实证研究结果应用到团体治疗中，并描述了如何测量破裂。团体治疗师还讨论团体领导者如何促进破裂及其随后的修复。本期特刊的介绍最后提出了对实践的影响，并呼吁未来的研究，这将有助于我们充分理解破裂如何影响小组工作的过程和结果。