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- - - - PROCEDURE 42 males in Broadmoor hihg-security hospital in a psycho-educational group, most of which have schizophrenia. Recorded interviews of the patients and then did a thematic analysis of their answers on the helpfulness of the psych-educational group finding key themes from their responses. The aim of the group was to help them understand their diagnosis and cope with their illness.
      - RESULTS - 4 core themes identified, 'What participants valued and why', 'What was helpful/unhelpful' and 'clinical implications' which participants said 'gave you piece of mind' while it also made them feel guilty about their past.
      - AIM: to study the usefulness of pscyh-education group work for offendor patients in a high-security forensic hospital setting.
      - CONCLUSIONS showed there were postive and negative changes in the various measures taken after the psycho=educational group took place.
      - EVALUATION: STRENGTH: semi-structured/unstructured interviews gave more detailed information to be gained from patients, qualitative data recorded WEAKNESS: lack of reliability no standardsied questions
  - - - AIM- to investigate the fragile ego boundaries of a single group case study
      - PROCEDURE- support group of 6 patients do a session with a trained therapist before their break for Christmas 45 minute session on a 'Thursday' group, session was not recorded at the time but summarised in a report by a therapist, fragile ego boundaries are a breakdown in the line between real and unreal, their thoughts and others thoughts.
      - RESULTS- one patient gave out Christmas cards and calendar wants the group to be linked together the group's solidify enforces his fragile ego boundary, Earl has grandiose delusions of working on running an oil pipeline linked to his father's job as an engineer, another has out of body experiences like hallucinations of spirits taking over their body showing his fragile ego boundary being able to differentiate between real and unreal.
      - CONCLUSIONS- therapists role as allies to the patients as a buffer to prevent psychological crisis, stronger relationship 'self' and 'others'.
      - EVALUATION OF CASE STUDY- STRENGTHS: inter-rater reliability- 3 therapists data, rich qualitative data WEAKNESSES: low generalisability because of small sample (one woman androcentric), researcher bias (less objective as recorded after 45 minute session may forget what happened/be more accustomed to patients and not make objective observations)