What is Group Psychotherapy?
Group Psychotherapy is an indirect method of treating maladjustment or mental illness by utilizing the wish to imitate and to belong. Group discussion of common disturbances enables the patient to develop insight without the feeling of exclusiveness, and encourages effort to overcome maladjustment. Group psychotherapy in the treatment of children stimulates the development of social drives.
It helps them overcome asocial or antisocial tendencies by guiding them in the learning of patterns of behavior which provide security for the individual within the framework of the social group.
