Group membership and staff turnover affect outcomes in group CBT for persistent pain

Group membership and staff turnover affect outcomes in group CBT for persistent pain.

The effects of two contextual factors, group membership and staff turnover, on the outcome of group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for persistent pain were investigated. The data came from end of treatment and 1 month follow-up assessments of 3050 individuals who attended an intensive group programme over 16 years. Intraclass correlations (ICC) showed significant intragroup effects on self-...

W2: Clinical Training Workshop: Transdiagnostic Group CBT for Anxiety Disorders

This workshop is an evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) training for mental health professionals and counselling graduate students in group therapy for anxiety disorders. The “transdiagnostic” approach is gaining widespread acceptance because it enables therapists to treat a variety of anxiety disorders using a common group protocol. Training will focus specifically on delivering ...

Using Group Membership Markers for Group Identification

We describe a system for automatically ranking documents by degree of militancy, designed as a tool both for finding militant websites and prioritizing the data found. We compare three ranking systems, one employing a small hand-selected vocabulary based on group membership markers used by insiders to identify members and member properties (us) and outsiders and threats (them), one with a much ...

Using Group Membership Markers for Group Identification in Web Logs

We describe a system for automatically ranking documents by degree of militancy, designed as a tool both for finding militant websites and prioritizing the data found. Our ranking system employs a small hand-selected vocabulary based on group membership markers used by insiders to identify members and member properties (us) and outsiders and threats (them). We use the same vocabulary to build a...

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