TIP 41: Advantages Of Group Therapy

Advantages of Group Therapy Within Tip 41 on pages 26-28, it discusses several different advantages that go along with group therapy or group treatment. The first advantages that is discusses is, groups provide positive peer support and pressure to abstain from substances of abuse. Another type of advantage that group treatment has is groups reduce the sense of isolation that most people who have substance abuse disorders experience. The three type of advantage that group treatment has is groups’ help members learn to cope with their substance abuse and other problems by allowing them to see how others deal with similar problems. Another type of advantage that is discussed in TIP 41 is groups offer family-like experiences, and lastly another reason why group treatment is such an advantage is groups provide feedback concerning the values and abilities of other group members.
Useful Groups to Addicts’ Lives Within TIP 41 on page 34 there is a table of several different types of groups and how they can intertwine with Skills development, Cognitive Behavioral, Therapy, Interpersonal Process, Support, Specialized Group, Psychoeducational. The five different types of groups from this table that I think would be useful to a recovery addict would include Life Skills training, Health and Wellness, Conflict resolution, Family Roles, and Support.
Life
Those things may be simply to us, but those who have been in and out of addiction their life and possibly even their parents in active addiction didn’t learn or forgot basic life