Marathon Group Therapy with Illicit Drug Users

  • Richard C. Page
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Abstract

Marathon group therapy offers the skilled therapist a means of creating a therapeutic environment in which illicit drug users can work to resolve their personal problems and to improve the quality of their interpersonal relationships. It is the purpose of this paper to describe how marathons operate to help illicit drug users and to summarize research conducted on the group process and the resulting attitude changes occurring among marathon group participants.

Keywords

Semantic Differential Intensive Group Illicit Drug User Therapeutic Environment Control Group Member 
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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

Authors and Affiliations

  • Richard C. Page
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  1. 1.Department of Counseling and Human Development ServicesUniversity of GeorgiaAthensGeorgia

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