Advantages to Group Setting

• Through the interpersonal interactions, the group gives a sense of belonging
• Receiving and imparting information
• Increases hopefulness of members
• A realization that others experience similar thoughts, feelings and actions
• In sharing part of ourselves with others, we start healing
• A good place to interact with others and learn social skills
• A place to imitate healthy behaviors demonstrated by others in the group
• A good place to learn of distortions in perceptions by having exchanges with peers
• A chance to help each other deal with the meaning of our existence
• A safe place to express feelings we have hidden or suppressed
• Therapeutic collective identity with the members of the group
• A place to learn to see the world through the perceptions of others
• The group can be a corrective family to alter our experiences obtained in our biological families