LEADERLESS THERAPY GROUPS: A WORD OF CAUTION
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As one of the currently practiced approaches to group psychotherapy, the leaderless group represents an attempt at facilitating the group member's feelings of autonomy, responsibility, and confidence in himself and fellow group members by reducing the active role of the therapist. While this technique can be an effective tool in the therapeutic process, it also has significant potential for becoming a harmful intervention if the dynamics of such a group are not fully understood by the therapist. This paper, therefore, attempts to survey briefly the various types of leaderless therapy groups and then to explain the potential pitfalls.
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