Where thanatos meets eros: Parallels between death education and group psychotherapy
Titel:
Where thanatos meets eros: Parallels between death education and group psychotherapy
Auteur:
Stillion, Judith M.
Verschenen in:
Death studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 7 (1983) nr. 1 pagina's 53-67
Jaar:
1983
Inhoud:
In the past, extravagant claims have been made for the possible beneficial effects on participants of death education courses. Too often, however, research aimed at examining the effect of death education courses has had disappointing results. This may, of course, be due to the limitations of pre-post instruments available, or it may be because of the complexity of the constructs measured. There is a third alternative, however. Failure to effect expected positive results may be a function of instructors' lack of awareness of the conditions necessary to promote such change. If instructors are not aware of conditions leading to change, they may be unable to recognize the opportunity inherent in death education seminars for maximizing the fit between curative factors known to promote growth in groups and the content and process of death education courses. This paper is designed to accomplish three purposes: to explore the parallels between death education and group psychotherapy, to promote awareness of the group process factors inherent in seminar-type death education courses; and to introduce a grid that will facilitate examination of the fit between the identified curative factors in group psychotherapy and the objectives and content of a typical seminar course in death education.
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