The group psychotherapy is a voluntary treatment where selected people in accordance with some criteria of inclusion, gather in groups directed by a trained therapist and help themselves to attempt to promote personal changes and/or in their environment so to lighten their psychic suffering.

Starting from a determinate theoretical and practical orientation, the therapist leads the interactions of the group members with the intention of facilitating the processes of change.

The group psychotherapy is brought in practice from the different current paradigms in psychiatry: groups of support, structured, with limits fixation, cognitive - behavioral, interpersonal, family and of dynamic orientation.

In comparison with the individual therapies, two of the main strong points of the group therapy are: the opportunity of immediate feedback for the parents of the patient, and the opportunity of the patient and therapist to check out the psychological, emotional answer and of behavior of the patient with several persons provoking a variety of transfers.

Thus also, in the area of the public sanitary institutions, it is a matter of a type of psychotherapeutic boarding that allows to pay attention to a greater number of patients in the same lapse of time.

Degree in Medicine and/or Psychology. Especially aimed at MIR and PIR.

- This Master's degree offers official accreditation to trainee doctors and psychologists in psychotherapy and the ability to carry out group treatments in the workplace they choose.

- In public medicine group treatment in adult mental health centres and child and adolescent mental health centres is necessary as well as in the psychiatric units of general hospitals.

- In health centres for other specialist areas such as oncology groups treatments are necessary to support patients and their families.

- Private medical centres may opt for group treatment, especially for educational psychology and addiction therapies.

• Yolanda Santaella
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