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[door Els Blijd-Hoogewys]

Colmant and Merta (1999) explored the Navajo sweat lodge ceremony as a culturally relevant and therapeutic approach to group therapy. They compared the sweat lodge ceremony used at a residential treatment center for Navajo males aged 6-15 years old with disruptive behavior disorders, to modern group work with Yalom’s therapeutic factors. They explained that the various ceremonial rituals encompassed Yalom's therapeutic factors.* Patients and therapists experienced all factors throughout various parts of the ceremony. The researchers consider use of the ceremony with Native Americans and non-Native Americans a viable treatment option and recommend future research.

 

Yalom's therapeutic factors*:

1.      Universality - feeling of having problems similar to others, not alone

2.      Altruism - helping and supporting others

3.      Instillation of hope - encouragement that recovery is possible

4.      Guidance - nurturing support & assistance

5.      Imparting information - teaching about problem and recovery

6.      Developing social skills - learning new ways to talk about feelings, observations and concerns

7.      Interpersonal learning - finding out about themselves & others from the group

8.      Cohesion - feeling of belonging to the group, valuing the group

9.      Catharsis – release of emotional tension

10. Existential factors – life & death are realities

11. Imitative behavior – modeling another’s manners & recovery skills

12. Corrective recapitulation of family of origin issues – identifying & changing the dysfunctional patterns or roles one played in primary family

13. Altruism - helping and supporting others

14. Instillation of hope - encouragement that recovery is possible

15. Guidance - nurturing support & assistance

16. Imparting information - teaching about problem and recovery

17. Developing social skills - learning new ways to talk about feelings, observations and concerns

18. Interpersonal learning - finding out about themselves & others from the group

19. Cohesion - feeling of belonging to the group, valuing the group

20. Catharsis – release of emotional tension

21. Existential factors – life & death are realities

22. Imitative behavior – modeling another’s manners & recovery skills

23. Corrective recapitulation of family of origin issues – identifying & changing the dysfunctional patterns or roles one played in primary family