CBT Meets Process: Assimilative Integration with Reference to Group Psychotherapy

ABSTRACT

This paper offers a brief overview of the historically predominant form of psychotherapy research both for individual and group psychotherapies, the randomized control trial (RCT), and its surrounding controversies and critiques as the backdrop from which new directions in both clinical theory building and research are being pursued, including efforts at building integrative models of treatment. The paper explores one promising integrative model, namely the incorporation of process and dynamic orientations into the province of group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and identifies challenges in implementing this model.

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Les R. Greene

Les R. Greene, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale University School of Medicine where he teaches and supervises in the areas of group and couples psychotherapy. He also has an independent practice of psychotherapy in Hamden, Connecticut. A Past President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, former Editor of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, and current co-editor of the AGPA Group Therapy Training and Practice Series, he has published extensively in the areas of group process and psychotherapy outcome research.