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Starting A Therapy Group in a Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center
Author(s) -
Motto Jerome A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1979.tb00902.x
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , group psychotherapy , duration (music) , confidentiality , service (business) , group (periodic table) , psychology , medicine , political science , psychotherapist , business , law , marketing , art , chemistry , literature , crystallography , organic chemistry
This report outlines the experience of one center in establishing a group therapy program, discussing the “readiness” of the center, reservations of the governing board, qualifications and number of group leaders, composition of the group, time‐place‐duration of meetings, “open” versus “closed” structure, vagaries of obtaining participants, integration with the 24‐hour telephone crisis service, problems of confidentiality, and dealing with the suicide of a group member.