The Pros And Cons Of Group Therapy

The ethics of forced mandatory treatment are very are wrong but the line of ethics on this subject are so vague that treatments can be justified. This is because there has been no evidence of the treatments helping the patients. In the same treatments can be used to restore autonomy to the patients who can then further their decision of treatment. It also depends on the doctor performing the treatment on the patients. This said, doctors who have forced mandatory treatment have the assumed good treatment for the patient.
It is societies right to enforce on the patient when said patient begins to harm the public or close family in a severe fashion that needs dealt with immediately. Unfortunately, suicide does not constitute enough evidence for
The major difference is the ability to relate to other individuals with the same disorder or even dissimilar disorders. When people can relate to others it allows for group healing and others can help with the healing process. One advantage of group therapy is that people can make friends and those friends tend to help with the healing process. Group therapy also helps with coping with situations that cause extreme stress and how to deal with those situations effectively. Group therapy helps the patients learn to thrive on their own without dependency and how to stay financially steady. Patients in group therapy can also experiment with different relationship styles for what would work in the world. In group therapy people can develop working strategies such as honesty and positive feedback to other people. There are negatives to group therapy, like people with social phobias cannot participate since they focus on their fears and not the flow of the topics. When they do not participate like the other patients this causes conflicts with the effectiveness of the treatments. Group therapy can also be ineffective when the patients does not willing participate since this type of therapy requires that the patients openly communicate and participate. Things can also get heated with other patients since everyone is different and have different views. This can usually be resolved if the counselor knows what they are
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