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Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group. The term can legitimately refer to any form of psychotherapy when delivered in a group format, including art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy or interpersonal therapy, but it is usually applied to psychodynamic group therapy where the group ...
Social group work and group psychotherapy have primarily developed along parallel paths. Where the roots of contemporary group psychotherapy are often traced to the group education classes of tuberculosis patients conducted by Joseph Pratt in 1906, the exact birth of social group work can not be easily identified (Kaiser, 1958; Schleidlinger, 2000; Wilson, 1976).
Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning, that enhances the total output of the activity than when done individually. It aims to cater for individual differences, and develop skills such as communication skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking skills, etc. It is also meant to develop ...
Interpersonal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) is a branch of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that is mainly used to treat anxiety, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and autism spectrum disorder. [1]
Counseling is a generic term for any of professional counseling that treats dysfunction occurring within a group of related people. This term describes a preventive system of counseling that works to combat psychological impairment through the improvement and development of community support. A community is defined as a group of interacting ...
Interpersonal therapy is one of the potential effective therapies to treat depressive symptoms in PTSD patients. In clinical studies, interpersonal therapy has led to a decrease in depressive PTSD symptomatology after 16 group sessions. Group sessions follow the same three stages as individual interpersonal therapy.
There is no encompassing definition of what a therapeutic community should be. Some have therefore also argued that it follows a family resemblance. [27] A common conception of therapeutic community is a group of people living together in a non-hierarchical, democratic way that brings psychological awareness of individual as well as group ...
Telephone counseling (also known as telephone therapy, telephone-based or telephone-delivered psychotherapy) refers to any type of psychological therapy performed over the telephone. Similarly to face-to-face therapy, telephone counseling can take the form of individual, couple or group psychotherapy.