GROUP is a peer-reviewed professional journal published by the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, whose mission is to “promote group approaches to the delivery of human services.”
Groups are offered in a vast array of settings—schools, prisons, social service agencies, theaters, community spaces, and more. While usually not conceived of as “therapy” groups, they offer their members support and enable them to grow and change, utilizing an array of different approaches.
How do group leaders adapt the frame of group theory to practice in settings outside of traditional mental health venues? How do the concepts of group theory and development concepts support leaders in different settings, and when and how do group leaders “bend the frame” to best serve their members?
This issue will offer short articles that illustrate a group that expands upon the idea of traditional group psychotherapy. The approaches may incorporate purely psychodynamic; systems centered; psychoeducation; combined didactic and psychodynamic process, psychodrama; group relations, and community organizing approaches; as well as others. The authors will demonstrate how to support human change in a particular social context. The article should explain how the authors adapted their approach to address the needs of the group’s members.
Topics could include, by are not limited to, the following:
- Single session groups
- Groups convened in public spaces
- Writing groups
- Racial affinity groups
- Restorative justice groups
- Spiritually-centered groups
- Critical incident debriefing groups
- Social skills groups, in classrooms and elsewhere
- The specific challenges of running groups in institutional settings and how the author(s) successfully managed them to benefit their members
- Groups that utilize non-traditional methods
For prospective authors:
- Plan on writing a 1500–3000-word article.
- Propose your article in an abstract of no more than 300 words and submit it to the Editor of GROUP, Jonah Schwartzopens in new window, by January 15, 2022.
- You may also submit a complete draft in lieu of an abstract.