I am doing a post doc at Mass Mental Health out here
in Boston, and we are interested in collecting data on
a FAP group. I have been discussing this with my
supervisors, and we thought we would post a few
questions on the FAP listserve.

We are wandering if
1) People have done FAP groups and collected data (I
know Luc Vandenbergh has the one on chronic pain and
FAP, which I will be looking up again)
2) What kind of assessment measures have been used pre
and post
3) Other information you have regarding FAP groups.

We have been looking at the FIAT and the FAST. The
plan is to do the a 16 session (4 month) group. These
are folks that have been in DBT, have decreased their
crisis behaviors, and continue to have problems with
depression and other interpersonal difficulties
despite not being in crisis. I have to write up the
study, do the assessment, and complete the group
within my post-doc year. We are concerned about the
time-consuming-ness of the FIAT, and we are also
concerned about the group applicability. I have
written a paper on FAP group applications and would be
happy to share it if people are interested. It has not
been accepted for publication but it may be fun to
beef up with some data and see where it goes. My
supervisor is thinking of a measure on interpersonal
relating and emotion regulation. She thinks it would
be cool to vidoetape it and have coders monitor the
occurance of CRB1's, but we are not set up to do that
intensive of research.

Another thought that we had was doing a FAP group with
therapist trainees. We are still brainstorming. Please
help if you can.