Changes in self-concepts during group psychotherapy as a function of alternate sessions and vicarious therapy pretraining in institutionalized mental patients and juvenile delinquents

Attempted to evaluate the effects of alternate sessions and vicarious therapy pretraining (VTP) in connection with time-limited group psychotherapy in 4 groups each of institutionalized juvenile delinquents and hospitalized mental patients. Ss were administered self- and ideal-self-concept Q sorts p...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Consulting Psychology 1966-08, Vol.30 (4), p.309-314
Main Author: Truax, Charles B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Group Psychotherapy
Human
Juvenile Delinquency
Self-Concept
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Attempted to evaluate the effects of alternate sessions and vicarious therapy pretraining (VTP) in connection with time-limited group psychotherapy in 4 groups each of institutionalized juvenile delinquents and hospitalized mental patients. Ss were administered self- and ideal-self-concept Q sorts pre- and posttherapy. It was found that: (1) the use of alternate sessions did not facilitate improvement in self- and ideal-self-concepts, but effected negative changes in self-concept as contrasted with a standard expert ideal sort; (2) the use of VTP appears to have had a positive effect on change in ideal-self-concept in the direction of what experts regard as ideal; (3) there were no differential effects of VTP and alternate sessions in the 2 populations under study; and (4) mean changes in self-concept measures from pre- to posttherapy were in a positive direction for the mental patients and in a negative direction for the juvenile delinquents.
ISSN:0095-8891
0022-006X
1946-1887
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/h0023579