Group Therapy

The central issue to group therapy, as in any therapy is how does the therapy improve the quality of life for the recipient? The methodology of applying therapy is determined by this question as a paradigm.  The individual therapist has a vested interest in the theoretical foundation for the therapy (s)he prescribes.  Client improvement may well have different attributions based upon these theoretical biases.  Irrespective of theoretical and attributional changes, the life quality improvements that therapy brings to the client are often brought about by the same methods of change.  Obviously change only comes about by action, and that action is fueled by the hope of effectiveness.  Long term potentiation is an example of a physiological change brought about by a psychological state. 

In order to amalgamate differing theories of therapy, one must separate the letter from the spirit, the ritual from the life,  the mechanism of change from the actual change itself.  The core of therapy, like any other core is the definition, the seed, the means of renewal.