What is a Psychotherapy Process Oriented Group?
September 23rd, 2008 |
By Deborah Reeves MGPGP, LPC, CGP
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What is a Psychotherapy Process Oriented group and how does it work?
A process group usually consists of around eight people who meet regularly for the common purpose of finding out more about who they are and what it is perhaps that they would like to see change with in their personal lives and in their relationships with others.
The life of a process group from the beginning to the end parallels different developmental stages of growth and maturity. As the natural cycles of the group move progressively forward, the members and the “group-as-a-whole” are assisted with guided feedback and process comments from the leader and or co-leaders. The group inherently knits together with an abundance of experiences forming and emulating a social microcosm that bears its own unique culture and identity.
A remarkable and natural phenomenon in the earlier phases of a working group is the way in which individuals, and sub-groups alike repeat the many characteristic ways once developed to survive the stressors and strains in the very first group…the family. Members will remind each other of significant others in their past or present circumstances bringing feelings, thoughts, ideas and fantasies to the fore. Read the rest of this entry
