Alcohol Rehab – Group Therapy

Group Therapy

The participants are also encouraged to help out the other people there, so that they can all benefit from being with one another. They are also inspired to share their own experiences with their addiction to a narcotic substance, which helps them to move on from their past of substance abuse.

How it can help

There are many benefits which come from alcohol rehab group therapy. The support given by the other members helps the patients to maintain their goal of recovering. It also teaches people more about addiction and treatment, which helps them to understand their own problems.

Another thing that group therapy does for addicts is make the sufferers feel better about themselves, which will make it easier for them to recover and to maintain a drug-free lifestyle long after their treatment is over. The patients also get to see how certain problems are fixed, allowing them to be able to fix their own troubles and also the issues of others.

The people there often form friendships with each other, which will give them encouragement and support whilst they are still undergoing their treatment and after they have finished it, too.

Different kinds of group therapy

As you can imagine, there is more than one kind of group therapy. In fact, there are 5! There are psycho-educational groups, which can give the patients information about the psychological side of drug abuse, and how it can affect their lives.

Skill development groups are able to help out the group members more specifically. The leader of the group will have access to material which will be more beneficial to the participants and their individual demands.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (or CBT) for alcohol abuse is based on the thought that contradictory behaviour is reinforced over time. This type of group therapy helps patients to change their behaviour and to do that they must change how they think and feel about themselves first and foremost.

Support groups focus on supporting each member of the group. The support is not only given by the group leader, but by each other. The leader will help each member to boost their social skills, so that they can talk more freely and openly about their addiction problems.

An interpersonal process group helps the participants to understand psychodynamics, which is the way that we function psychically, and the leader of the group will observe the how each person is feeling.