Group Psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy is a branch of psychotherapy intended to help people who would like to improve their ability to cope with life's difficulties and problems but in a group situation.
In group therapy, one or more therapists, work with a small group of clients together. Although initially created to decrease costs and increase efficiency, practitioners soon recognised positive therapeutic benefits that could not be gained from one-on-one therapies. For example - interpersonal problems are addressed well within groups. Group therapy is not based on one single psychotherapeutic theory, but many and often revolves around talking, and may also include other approaches such as psychodrama, movement work, body psychotherapy or constellations work.
The aim of group psychotherapy is to support the solving of emotional difficulties and encourage the personal development of the participants in the group. The combination of past experiences and experiences outside the therapeutic group, with the interactions between group members and the therapist's, becomes the material through which the therapy is conducted. These interactions might not be perceived as entirely positive, as the issues that the client has in daily life, will inevitably be reflected in his or her interactions within the group setting. However, this allows for valuable opportunities for such problems to be worked through in a therapeutic setting, generating experiences, which may then be translated into "real life." The skilled therapist will be selective in choosing members of the group to support the group process.
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