Group Process in the Single-gender Women's Recovery Group Compared with Mixed-gender Group Drug Counseling

Overview

Journal J Groups Addict Recover

Specialty Health Services

Date 2013 Dec 3

PMID 24294145

Citations 9

Authors

Shelly F Greenfield

Laura E Kuper

Amanda M Cummings

Michael S Robbins

Robert J Gallop

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Abstract

Enhanced affiliation among members is thought to provide increased support for women in single-gender compared with mixed-gender group therapy for substance use disorders (SUDs) and to provide a potential mechanism of action for its efficacy. In a Stage I trial of single-gender versus mixed-gender group therapy for SUDs we examined affiliative statements made by members in two group treatments, single-gender Women's Recovery Group (WRG) and mixed-gender Group Drug Counseling (GDC). Twenty-eight WRG and 17 GDC group therapy tapes were coded and compared for five types of affiliative statements. Three types of affiliative statements (agreement, supportive, and completing a thought) were highly correlated and were more frequent in WRG than GDC (D=0.882, p=0.27). In GDC, women were more likely to provide an affiliative statement to a male group member than any other combination of directionality (p<0.01). Compared with mixed-gender, single-gender group therapy for SUDs may enhance support through greater frequency of affiliative statements.

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