Notwithstanding the proven effectiveness and efficiency of group treatments, these rarely
seem to be applied. In the Outpatient Center for Forensic Psychiatry North (AFPN) in Assen,
The Netherlands, group treatments are commonly used. Where possible this is performed in
a multidisciplinary approach where group and specific individual psychotherapies reinforce
each other. We illustrated this reciprocal reinforcement of client-centered group therapy and
psychomotor therapy in a workshop held at the VCgP-conference in September 2011. After a
theoretical introduction of what kind of patients we treat and which treatments are available
at the AFPN, one of the twenty current groups was taken as an example. Next, as an illustration,
a group from the audience was formed to elaborate on a part of a group session.
psychomotor therapy, group psychotherapy, forensic setting, mentalizing, aggressionregulation
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
