Therapeutic factors in a systemic multi-family group treatment for major depression: patients' and partners' perspectives

Gilbert M. D. Lemmens; Ivan Eisler; Paul Dierick; Germain Lietaer; Koen Demyttenaere

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.2009.00465.x

Therapeutic factors in a systemic multi-family group treatment for major depression: patients' and partners' perspectives

Gilbert M. D. Lemmens, Ivan Eisler, Paul Dierick, Germain Lietaer, Koen Demyttenaere

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This study investigated helpful and disturbing factors in multi-family groups with hospitalized, depressed patients and their family members. Both patients and their partners reported the occurrence of different therapeutic factors such as the cohesion of the group, different observational processes, and guidance from the therapist. The frequency of the therapeutic factors seemed to increase for both the patients and their partners as the group sessions progressed and several differences in reported therapeutic factors were found between the patients and their partners. A number of therapeutic factors such as modelling and guidance from the therapist were found to be related with improvement of depressive symptoms of the patient. The results help to provide some insight into which processes are important in multi-family group therapy for depression.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	250 - 269
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Family Therapy
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2009.00465.x
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009

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