GROUP THERAPY WITH THE BLIND

Abstract

For the past two and one-half years, weekly group therapy sessions have been conducted with the clients attending the Kansas Rehabilitation Center for the Adult Blind. Our experience has indicated that this group structure offers distinctive advantages in helping to resolve some of the problems presented by blind people. I would like to point up those aspects of the group relationship that seem specifically valuable in our work. Only by the method of trial and error was our present group structure developed, for the literature offered no models to follow. Our efforts have always been experimental and fluid, and I presume that many future changes will result from further experience. This report will indicate our present methods and structure with the group and some of the failures and successes from which it evolved.