NUR378
Name: Shannon McNeill
Registration Number: B00754698
Campus: Magee
Course: BSc Hons Mental Health Nursing (2018
Cohort)
Year of Study: 2
Semester: 3
Module title and code: Principles of Therapeutic
Groupwork NUR378
Module Co-ordinator: Paddy McBrearty
Word Count: 2041
Date of Submission: 25th September 2020
, An academic paper, evaluating the impact, efficacy, and relevance of therapeutic group work
as a psychosocial therapeutic approach to assisting people with emotional distress or mental
ill health. The paper should include reflection on the qualitative impact of the group
experience, for people with emotional distress or mental ill health.
The aim of this assignment is to explore the value and eternal effect that group therapy
involvement may have on individuals living with mental health issues as opposed to other
therapeutic intervention approaches. This paper will examine positive and negative features
that individuals face when participating in group therapy and identify what group therapy
means and how key theorists’ ideas are important in psychotherapy in today’s modern world.
The nature of group therapy entails one or more qualified therapists working with several
individuals at one time to provide psychotherapy. It is designed to support individuals with
issues they are faced with whilst being in a unique therapeutic setting (Cherry, 2020).
Groups that are therapeutically connected allows individuals with mental health issues to feel
a belonging and trust, which in turn reduces a degree of anxiety with confronting topics of
the difficulties that they face (Guttmacher et al. 1971).
Since being introduced in the 1940’s, group therapy has adapted within practice to meet the
everchanging needs of service users and patients that present with mental ill health. It has
been shown from studies that group therapies have been at the forefront of treating mental ill
health disorders and issues such as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD/BPD),
disordered eating and depression whilst also offering a preventative stance for relapses
whilst providing support (Yalom et al. 2005).
Yalom outlines the principles of group therapy with the message that groups can come
together and share their experiences, boost confidence and self-esteem with working
together at its core (Yalom et al. 2005). With these principles, group therapy has shown to
be effective, a study carried out by Thimm and Antonsen between 2003 and 2013 showed
Name: Shannon McNeill
Registration Number: B00754698
Campus: Magee
Course: BSc Hons Mental Health Nursing (2018
Cohort)
Year of Study: 2
Semester: 3
Module title and code: Principles of Therapeutic
Groupwork NUR378
Module Co-ordinator: Paddy McBrearty
Word Count: 2041
Date of Submission: 25th September 2020
, An academic paper, evaluating the impact, efficacy, and relevance of therapeutic group work
as a psychosocial therapeutic approach to assisting people with emotional distress or mental
ill health. The paper should include reflection on the qualitative impact of the group
experience, for people with emotional distress or mental ill health.
The aim of this assignment is to explore the value and eternal effect that group therapy
involvement may have on individuals living with mental health issues as opposed to other
therapeutic intervention approaches. This paper will examine positive and negative features
that individuals face when participating in group therapy and identify what group therapy
means and how key theorists’ ideas are important in psychotherapy in today’s modern world.
The nature of group therapy entails one or more qualified therapists working with several
individuals at one time to provide psychotherapy. It is designed to support individuals with
issues they are faced with whilst being in a unique therapeutic setting (Cherry, 2020).
Groups that are therapeutically connected allows individuals with mental health issues to feel
a belonging and trust, which in turn reduces a degree of anxiety with confronting topics of
the difficulties that they face (Guttmacher et al. 1971).
Since being introduced in the 1940’s, group therapy has adapted within practice to meet the
everchanging needs of service users and patients that present with mental ill health. It has
been shown from studies that group therapies have been at the forefront of treating mental ill
health disorders and issues such as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD/BPD),
disordered eating and depression whilst also offering a preventative stance for relapses
whilst providing support (Yalom et al. 2005).
Yalom outlines the principles of group therapy with the message that groups can come
together and share their experiences, boost confidence and self-esteem with working
together at its core (Yalom et al. 2005). With these principles, group therapy has shown to
be effective, a study carried out by Thimm and Antonsen between 2003 and 2013 showed
