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Keener, Dana Ray – 1986
This paper addresses the issue of homosexuals who want to change their sexual orientation. It is noted that many ego-dystonic homosexuals who want to become heterosexual, despite encouragement from psychotherapists to accept their homosexuality, are turning to self-help groups in an effort to change their sexual orientation. Studies that have…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Group Therapy
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Turner, David N.; Saunders, Danny – Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application, 1990
Observed 2 Gamblers Anonymous (GA) groups in South Wales over a 12-month period. Determined 2 broad consequences arose from encountering fellow sufferers: acceptance of diagnosis and commitment to recovery and to will of GA, or rejection of the diagnosis with the knowledge that they are returning to the outside world with a reconstituted…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Foreign Countries, Group Counseling, Group Therapy