Group Therapy

 

Benefits of Group Therapy

Group members can learn from each other:

• trust
• new ideas
• belonging

"Peer pressure", or power from peers, can be very effective in terms of doing homework, being honest, taking medications.

 

Effective re: time and energy

 

Closed groups have people enter together and go through sessions together.

Open groups see people joining as they determine, sort of a drop-in.

 

 

Group Therapy Facilitation

It will be important to have some information here.

 

It can be very nice to not always be alone 1:1 with the doctor, and to learn about common experiences of others.

 

"Therapeutic community"