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Advantages of Group Counseling

There are Advantages of Being in a Group:   

• The group can serve as a vehicle for helping people make changes in their attitudes, beliefs about themselves and others

• Participants can explore their styles of relating with others and learn more effective social skills

• Group members can discuss their perceptions of one another and receive valuable feedback on how they are being perceived in the group 

• The group provides a re-creation of the participants’ everyday world

• The group can provide understanding and support, which fosters the members’ willingness to explore the problems they have brought with them to the group

• Participants can achieve a sense of belonging

• Members can learn ways of being intimate, caring, and challenging

• One can practice new behaviors safely in the group

• Group members can receive encouragement and suggestions on how to apply what they are learning in the outside world

• One can glimpse the kind of person they would like to become, and come to understand what is preventing them from becoming that person.