Predicting Change in Emotional Distress from Language Characteristics of Group Psychodynamic Therapy for Perfectionism: An Empirical Case Study.
Though psychodynamic group psychotherapy, like all therapy approaches, espouses the use of specific interventions and distinct mechanisms of change, in general, it is unclear the extent to which different therapy orientations actually differ in practice. The goal of this study was to use Linguistic...
| Published in: | International Journal of Group Psychotherapy Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 503 - 539 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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