Anthony S. Joyce

Time-limited day treatment for personality disorders: Integration of research and practice in a group program.

Historical Evolution of Day Treatment Psychiatric Partial Hospitalisation A Review of the Research Utilization of Partial Hospitalisation Alternative Psychosocial Treatments for Affective Disorders and Personality Disorders The Edmonton Day Treatment Programme Two Weeks in the Life of the Day Treament Programme Clinical Trial Evaluation of Treatment Efficacy Prediction of Success in the Day Treatment Programme Relationships Among Psychological Mindedness, Patient Work, and Favourable Outcome in the Day Treatment Programme The Psychosocial Environment as a Predictor of Outcome in the Day Treatment Programme Case Illustrations from the Day Treatment Programme Themes and Future Directions.

Interpretive and supportive psychotherapies : matching therapy and patient personality

What is Short-Term, Interpretive Therapy, and Who is a Good Candidate? What is Short-Term Supportive Therapy, and Who is a Good Candidate? Interpretive and Supportive Dimensions of Psychotherapy Optimal Matching of Parents and Short-Term Psychotherapies Quality of Objective Relations and Psychological Mindedness - Predictive Patient Characteristics Interaction of Interpretive and Supportive Forms of Psychotherapy and Patient Personality Variables What Role Does Gender Play as a Patient Aptitude for Therapy? Relationships Among Therapy Process, Outcome, and Dropping Out Clinical Illustrations of Dropping Out From Interpretive Therapy - Importance of Flexibility Relationships Between Patient Personality (QOR, PM) and the Process of Psychotherapy - Clinical Illustrations of Successful and Unsuccessful Cases Therapy Manuals for Interpretive and Supportive Forms of Psychotherapy Themes and Future Directions.

Differences in men's and women's responses to short-term group psychotherapy

The authors examined the role of patient gender in the process and outcome of 2 forms of short-term group psychotherapy: interpretive and supportive. The sample consisted of depressed outpatients who were also experiencing complicated grief after a variety of death losses. Findings indicated that women generally had better outcomes in both forms of group therapy compared with men. In addition, men were less committed to their therapy groups than women and were perceived by other group members to be less compatible than women. This suggests that men may derive less benefit from group psychotherapy than women. This gender effect may be partially mediated by mens lack of commitment to the group and perceived incompatibility with other group members.

The psychodynamic psychiatry service of the University of Alberta Hospital: a thirty year history.

Abstract This paper describes the Psychodynamic Psychiatry Service (PPS) of the University of Alberta Hospital over its 30 years of development. This psychiatric organization consists of three clinical programs—an outpatient clinic and intensive day and evening programs—and an integral evaluation and research unit. The PPS is unique in its group therapy clinical orientation, its psychodynamic theoretical orientation, and its integration of an ongoing research program that establishes empirical validation of its clinical work. The productivity and longevity of this psychiatric organization appear to derive from several strengths, including cooperation between leaders of the clinical and research programs; the institution of staff relations groups in the three clinical programs; the operation of the fully integrated evaluation and research program that serves to provide empirical support for the treatments offered; and a unifying ideology characterized by the valuing of both psychodynamic and group oriented work. Other important factors to the success of the PPS include the strengths of the founder of the service and financial and other support of the academic department in which it is housed. This paper describes the historical development and present structure and functioning of the PPS, the challenges it has been confronted with, and the responses to those challenges. We conclude with factors contributing to its survival and productivity and with thoughts about the future.

Brief crisis group psychotherapy: One therapist's model

Time-limited group psychotherapy (eight sessions) has been found useful in meeting the needs of patients in crisis presenting at a Psychiatric Walk-In Clinic. To train others in the use of this modality, it was necessary to outline a theoretical model. The experience of loss is posited as underlying most crisis events. The ability of a time-limited framework to bring the issue of loss into focus is explicated. The limits of insight techniques for conflict resolution in the short-term context are explored and more change-oriented modes of intervention (e.g., reframing and behavioral prescription) are discussed. Patterns of group development are also outlined.