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The Pros And Cons Of Group Therapy

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We all go through life accumulating life experiences. These experiences that cause us to develop behaviors and survival techniques that stay with us as patterns into adulthood and these can remain unconscious to us until there is cause to notice them. For example, we might find ourselves saying I 've had that problem before and I have no idea why I keep doing that. This can cause us to experience feelings such as isolation, loneliness, hopeless, despair, and helplessness. This can lead to feeling flawed and it can cause us this struggle in relationships. Relationships might feel disappointing, frustrating, or we might just feel like we are not very good at them. This is where group therapy can be of some assistance to your issues. Group therapy provides us with the opportunity to explore relationships and other issues individuals may have. It provides members of the group a place to practice connecting and sustaining relationships with others. Group therapy allows them to explore how they have gotten stuck, how to make different choices, and create new opportunities for themselves going forward. Group therapy provides members of the group the opportunity to see others and themselves through one another’s eyes and develop a sense of how they are perceived in the …show more content…

According to the business dictionary ethical issues can be defined as, “A problem or situation that requires a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical)” (BusinessDictionary.com, 2017). Ethical issues not only involve the counselor, but the group members as well. According to the American Counseling Association (ACA) ethical code (2014) A.2.a. Informed Consent it states, “Clients have the freedom to choose whether to enter into or remain in a counseling relationship and need adequate information about the counseling process and the

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