SATIATION EFFECT IN VOCATIONALLY ORIENTED GROUP THERAPY AS DETERMINED BY THE PALO ALTO GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY SCALE

Abstract

There is an adage in our culture that "one can't get too much of.a good thing." In their own area, experimental psychologists have tended to dispell this notion through innumerable satiation studies; however, a search of the research literature has indicated that this idea is still accepted in psychotherapeutic circles and appears to be especially true in reference to group psychotherapy. For example, this writer was unable to find a single study concerned with the problem of how long group therapy should continue.