Group Therapy

Group therapy is an increasingly popular therapeutic option that can be healing as well as cost effective. Here's an overview of the different types of group therapy and a guide to which types of group therapy may be effective for you.

Group therapy is becoming more and more popular today. Many have come to even prefer it over individual therapy.

Is group therapy worthwhile? Is group therapy effective? Following is my personal experience with group therapy and why I came to the conclusion that it is effective. I can say it was effective for me and I did not think it would be.

Group therapy is the type of psychotherapy in which patients need together in a group in order to try and solve their problems together.

This article gives an overview on the 2007 experiment on group therapy for people with anxiety disorders done by Erickson.

An exploration of how theories behind group work (Yalom, others) play out in clinical practice.

A discussion of three original group therapy methods: psychodrama, transactional analysis, and gestalt therapy.

Group therapy for eating disorders could be helpful for some patients but can also be very controversial for others. This article will serve as an overview and summary of the various issues involving group therapy in the treatment of eating disorders.

Group therapy is a form of psychosocial intervention. However, it did not have effect on breast cancer survival rates.

Reparative therapy causes harm and should not be allowed to be called therapy

Though it's not as talked about as much as female rape, male victims of marital rape exist too. If you're a man and a marital rape victim, this article may help you.

This is a frustrating situation that many parents face. A resistant patient is not likely to benefit very much from therapy.

Solving problems using different styles psychotherapy may help to overcome a problem. Find out which is most useful for your particular situation.

Doctors place live maggots upon the open wound and then seal up the wound with a bandage. The maggots are left on the wound until there is no more dead tissue. Maggots eat only dead tissue. They do not eat live tissue.

For thousands of years the Australian aborigines practiced maggot therapy to clean open wounds. Burmese peoples and Mayan Indians treated wounded individuals with maggots wrapped in wet grass or some sort of cloth.

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Maggot therapy shows promise where traditional medicine is unable to cure non-healing wounds. With maggot therapy no wound debridement (surgical or laser removal of necrotic (dead) tissue) is necessary.

This paper examines ways to improve attendance and retention rates in a group therapy setting, thereby improving group moral, group cohesion, and the therapeutic relationship

Below is a list of things you will want to familiarize yourself with before being an effective group leader. Use this list as a self test to determining whether or not you are prepared to run a group.

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If You Don't Need Therapy, You Are DEAD.