Marathon Group Counseling With Illicit Drug Abusers

Abstract

This study compares the effects offive 16-hour unstructured marathon groups with the effects of five, matched, randomly selected control groups. The five marathons were compared with the five control groups on a semantic differential that consisted of the specific adjective pairs and the evaluative scale of the concept My Real Self. The marathon group members rated some of the adjectivepairs of My Real Self differently and rated the evaluative scale of My Real Self higher than the control group members.