How can groups be used to enhance psychological adjustment and well-being?
Therapeutic applications of groups: From Pratt’s “thought control classes” to modern group psychotherapy by Sally Barlow, Gary Burlingame, and Addie Fuhriman The therapeutic application of groups has a long and nonlinear history. Group psychotherapy, drawing on research and applications from diverse fields, covers an array of topics from psychoeducation to analysis (often blurring the boundary between group psychology and group psychotherapy). The efficacy of group psychotherapy has been established in the empirical literature. The progression of topics or themes in group psychotherapy has moved from concerns about leadership to members, interactions, and the resultant group processes such as therapeutic factors. These topics of interest, assessed throughout the century using methodologies form simple tallies to complex sequential equation modeling, have become increasingly sophisticated to match the complexity of a system that attempts to track member-to-member, leader-to-member, and
