Applied Research Of Group Psychotherapy Specification Model For Different Psychiatric Disorders

Objective: The effect of the structural group therapy model applied in China is studiedin this work. In heterogeneous groups, which disease is more suitable for grouptherapy or for individual therapy/medication is determined. The results of this workwill provide scientific reference and guidance for future clinical works.Methods: For heterogeneous groups, patients who enter the hospital for the first timeare voluntarily divided into groups (informed consent, voluntary participation). Eachgroup contains nine people, and the treatment session takes place three times a week.The whole treatment lasts for three weeks with nine90-minutes sessions using thestructural group therapy model. The WHOQOL-100Quality of Life Scale assessmentmethod is used before the group treatment. The second assessment is applied at theend of the whole treatment. The data is processed using Spss17.0software bycovariance comparison between patient groups. The t-test is used to compare theeffectiveness before and after treatment while covariance analysis is used for thecomparisons between diseases.Results:1. Patients participated in group therapy have improvement in physical domain,psychological domain, independence domain, social relationship domain,environmental domain as well as the spiritual/religious domain. The improvementfound in the social relationship domain is more significant compared with other5prominent aspects. The result has statistical differences.2. The quality of life before and after treatment is also compared between the six major areas with24small factors. In physiological domain, the energy and fatiguefactor has the most remarkable improvement; in psychological domain, factors ofthinking, learning, memory and attention are mostly improved; in the independencedomain, the improvement of daily life ability is mostly improved, in the domain ofsocial relationship, sex factor is most improved; in environmental domain, the factorsof participation opportunity and participated involvement is with the mostimprovement. In addition, the spiritual status also gets better after the treatment.3. The comparison of the effectiveness of7diseases in six major domains is asfollows. For hysteria, it is invalid in all six major areas. For obsessive-compulsivedisorder, the treatment is effective only in the domain of social relation. For bipolardisorder, it is invalid for social relations, spiritual, and environmental domains. Forsomatic disorders, the treatment is invalid for the environmental domain, while forother diseases, this treatment is effective for all domains.4. The treatment differences between7diseases is also studied. The effectiveness ofgroup psychological therapy is significant for depression, anxiety disorders,schizophrenia and it is advised to promote for the treatment of these diseases.Conclusions:1. Structural group therapy is simple and easy to operate. Especially for patients whoneed social function recovery, the treatment effect for improving the quality of life isremarkable. Due to the great effectiveness, it is recommended to be used in themedical and health institutions, especially the local community health centers.2. Group therapy has great effect for the treatment of depression, anxiety andschizophrenia disease. It is recommended to promote this method for the treatment ofthese three diseases.