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Section 2: Inpatient Groups

Groups and Group Dynamics in a Therapeutic Community

Pages 315-320
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes a small residential therapeutic community in England that operates on a group model and uses transactional analysis as its main theoretical framework. The different types of groups and their functions are outlined, and the ways these fit together into a therapeutic regime is explained. Also described are the ways that group dynamics are viewed and attended to in this environment.

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Jenny Robinson

Jenny Robinson, B.A. (Hons) Psychology, is a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and a director of Connect Therapeutic Community (formerly Trident Housing Association Therapeutic Community). She published an article in the January 1998 TAJ and contributed a chapter entitled “Groups in Residential Settings” to Group Counselling by Keith Tudor (1999).