Lipp M R, Malone S T
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1976 Apr;57(4):180-3.
This paper describes a continuing weekly therapy group for vascular surgery amputees. Group goals include (1) assisting amputees with feeling of helplessness, isolation, and depression; (2) facilitating staff awareness of psychosocial factors in each patients' rehabilitation; (3) integrating ward management with physiatric treatment; (4) mobilizing patient's coping skills; and (5) motivating patients to participate in rehabilitation of other amputees. Group meetings emphasize ventilative, mutual-support approaches, rarely including conventional psychotherapeutic techniques. Members exchange technical information concerning prostheses, operations and amputee life, as well as coping techniques in a general hospital social system. Patient choices as to what to discuss are described.
本文描述了一个针对血管外科截肢患者的持续每周治疗小组。小组目标包括：（1）帮助截肢患者缓解无助感、孤独感和抑郁情绪；（2）提高工作人员对每位患者康复过程中社会心理因素的认识；（3）将病房管理与物理治疗相结合；（4）调动患者的应对技巧；（5）激励患者参与其他截肢患者的康复过程。小组会议强调通气性、互助性方法，很少采用传统心理治疗技术。成员们交流有关假肢、手术和截肢者生活的技术信息，以及综合医院社会系统中的应对技巧。文中描述了患者对于讨论内容的选择。
