Group Therapy

Group Therapy

Group therapy is a psychotherapy in which clients meet regularly to interact and help each other achieve insight into their feelings and behavior.   Group therapy is very diverse. Psychologists use group therapy for many different types of psychological problems, concerns, and disorders. Group therapy is designed to provide the person seeking counseling with social support to work through their problems.
There are several different was of holding group therapy sessions and they focus on many different things.   Some groups are more general in focus, with goals related to improving overall life satisfaction and effective life functioning, especially in the area of relationships. Members of these groups will have varying backgrounds, and varying psychological issues that they bring to the treatment group. The psychologist will select group members who are likely to interact in ways that will help all group members.
Other groups are "focused" or "topical" therapy groups. The group members tend to have similar problems because the group is focused on a specific topic or problem area. For example, there are therapy groups for Depression, Adult Children of Alcoholics, or Parents of ADHD Children. Some focus therapy groups are skill development groups, with an emphasis on learning new coping skills or changing disorderly behavior. There are groups to help people develop stress management skills, parenting skills, and anger management skills, with many others.
In group therapy, you learn that you are not alone in experiencing psychological problems, and you can experiment with trying to relate to people differently in a safe environment, with a psychologist present to assist as needed. Additionally, group therapy allows you to learn from the experiences of others with similar problems, and also allows you to better understand how people very different from yourself view the world and interact with people.
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