Group cognitive-behavioural therapy

Understanding and working with group process variables can have two significant benefits:

• enhances the result of therapy – sets the stage for greater change, enables higher levels of intra- and interpersonal learning, and brings a sense of lasting benefits to group members;

• helps solve problems that inevitably arise in a group context.

Group therapy is based on a carefully developed procedure that includes critical information and exercises to support specific cognitive and behavioural techniques. Bringing group process models into cognitive-behavioural therapy will greatly enrich the practice of clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other psychotherapists, who will be helped to work optimally and therefore more effectively in a group setting.