Therapeutic Approaches for clients

Therapeutic Approaches for clients

These Differences might Impact the Therapeutic Approaches for clients in Group and Family Therapy.

Since group therapy is affordable to clients without insurance, the tendency is to choose this option for treatment. So, group therapy is the ideal choice for many clients due to its cost-effectiveness. To manage time, the therapist prefers to use the traditional 90-minute group therapy session to treat many clients instead of using many individual sessions (Wheeler, 2014, p. 415). Insurance companies encourage and reimburse clients who choose group therapy options. Depending on objectives, the therapist might create a group to help improve the clients’ ways of interacting with and relate to others and draw on the group’s strength. Then organize a family therapy to improve the functioning of the current and future generation Laureate Education (2017). Other focus of the approach would dictate the theoretical orientation to psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, or person-centered (Wheeler, 2014, p. 410).

Reference

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Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Introduction to psychotherapy with groups and families [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

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