Timothy Butler

Curative Factors in Group Therapy: A Review of the Recent Literature

This article reviews studies of the group curathe process that have employed Yaloms description of group curative factors. Similarities and differences in the findings of the studies are discussed and future directions for research in this area are indicated.

Patient Perspective on the Curative Process: A Comparison of Day Treatment and Outpatient Psychotherapy Groups

In recent years, there have been several attempts to examine the therapeutic process in group psychotherapy and to describe the various factors contributing to that process (Corsini and Rosenberg, 1955; Dickoff and Larkin, 1963; Berzon et al., 1963). Yalom, in his definitive (1975) work, synthesized the concepts of these and other researchers with his own clinical observations to arrive at twelve curative factor constructs. He labeled his factors as follows: catharsis, cohesiveness, selfunderstanding, interpersonal learning (output), interpersonal learning (input), universality, instillation of hope, altruism, recapitulation of the primary family group, identification, and existential factors. Yalom also examined in his study with Tinklenberg and Gilula (1975), patient perspective on the curative factors and, among other analyses, determined a rank ordering of relative factor importance. The authors described the sample group for this study as the &dquo;most successful patients&dquo; of &dquo;groups of

A Function-Centered Model of Interest Assessment for Business Careers

The authors argue that an effective way to describe the manifestation of interest patterns within a particular work domain is through a nuanced description of interests in terms of the essential functional activities common to that domain. Focusing on the domain of business work and studying a large sample of business professionals over a 15-year period, the authors derived an eight-factor business core function model representing the way interest patterns are manifested in actual business work. This model is the basis for a business interest assessment instrument, the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII), which has been used by more than 75,000 business professionals and business students and has become the career interest assessment tool of choice at more than 200 of the leading business schools around the world. This article describes the rationale for the core function model and presents basic psychometric information on the BCII.