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Unlocking Group Therapy: Psychoeducation, Treatment, and Process Groups
Dr. Curtis Peterson outlines the three main clinical group processes—psychoeducational/support groups, treatment groups, and process groups—and explains how they ideally progress from education to symptom treatment to deep emotional processing.
The episode also discusses real-world constraints (like insurance limits) that cause these stages to overlap, using inpatient substance-use treatment as an example, and notes best-practice sequencing suggestions.
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