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The Role of Self-Conducted Group Therapy in Psychorehabilitation: A Look at Recovery, Inc

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.7.934

Self-conducted therapeutic clubs fill a need in psychorehabilitation. The emotional climate of the group, its contagiousness, the opportunity to share with and help others— all these are constructive forces of genuine value. Against them must be weighed such disadvantages as the lack of records and adequate follow-up, inadequate screening of new members, limited leadership training, risk of delay in treating serious illness, high dropout rates, and lack of professional or legal regulatory restraints.

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