TY - JOUR
T1 - Stresses and coping in ICU nursing
T2 - Why support groups fail
AU - Weiner, Myron F.
AU - Caldwell, Troy
AU - Tyson, Jon
N1 - Funding Information:
*This paper was supported by a Basic Science Research Grant from Southwestern Medical School.
PY - 1983/9
Y1 - 1983/9
N2 - A successful nurse support group was contrasted with two unsuccessful support groups. The authors concluded that support groups work best if they are initiated in response to a felt need by the nurses, if the nurses have experienced the group leader as helpful in the past, if the group is highly structured and does not allow early discharge of intense negative feelings, and if the group's problems are primarily interpersonal and can be dealt with in the group and not primarily environmental or administrative problems such as noise, overcrowding, or understaffing.
AB - A successful nurse support group was contrasted with two unsuccessful support groups. The authors concluded that support groups work best if they are initiated in response to a felt need by the nurses, if the nurses have experienced the group leader as helpful in the past, if the group is highly structured and does not allow early discharge of intense negative feelings, and if the group's problems are primarily interpersonal and can be dealt with in the group and not primarily environmental or administrative problems such as noise, overcrowding, or understaffing.
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-8343(83)90053-1
DO - 10.1016/0163-8343(83)90053-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 6628984
AN - SCOPUS:0021067062
SN - 0163-8343
VL - 5
SP - 179
EP - 183
JO - General Hospital Psychiatry
JF - General Hospital Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -