Inside Psychoeducational Support Groups: Healing Through Education

Professor Peterson’s Psychology Classroom · Sep 19, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode Dr. Curtis Peterson outlines psychoeducational support groups: who can facilitate them (peer-led or professional) and the three core steps—emotional check-ins, an education module, and group processing/mirroring.

He explains how these groups normalize experiences, reduce isolation, and reveal unhealthy power-and-control dynamics (including financial control), with examples from domestic violence and addiction recovery.