group therapy
- noun
- /ɡruːp ˈθɛrəpi/
- Specialized
- In group therapy, participants share their experiences and support one another.
- group therapy session
- individual and group therapy
- family group therapy
Things became quite sexual in her in her group therapy sessions.
- Things became quite sexual in her in her group therapy sessions.
- You know, this sounds corny, but group therapy is a thing, right?
- OK, so I did, I do group therapy.
- If therapy is not accessible to you, please consider online support groups or group therapy, which may serve as no cost or low cost options.
- One floor of the Cuckoo's Nest and it's just after she's presided over this rather chaotic group therapy session.
- When someone is in Group therapy and they've got ADHD, we let them knit, we give them some kind of sensory stimulus.
- That doesn't cover the yoga and doing group therapy or do aromatherapy or do MEMDMDMA or do marijuana or do that.
Examples
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I've tried group therapy.
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We're in the middle of a group therapy session, containing six or seven fathers with their teenage sons.
Fiction book (1997) -
And we still have one group therapy left this month.
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Lucky, I think it's time for another group therapy session.
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I went to group therapy with you.
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Once I wake up I have to tell you about it in group therapy.
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If therapy is not accessible to you, please consider online support groups or group therapy, which may serve as no cost or low cost options.
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Don't forget you're scheduled for your first group therapy session today.
Fiction book (1995) -
Most interpretations occur in group therapy sessions, which are not analytic but supportive in nature.
Academic text (1997) -
Ongoing school mental health activities included mentorship programs, group therapy or skills-building programs, and individual counseling.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A group meeting where people honestly talk about their feelings to understand themselves and each other
A therapy where a small group meets with a therapist to talk about problems
A group of people who meet to talk about their feelings with a trained therapist
How Many
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'therapy' (treatment) applied to a 'group' (several people) yields therapy provided to multiple people together. This straightforward noun–noun combination is cross-linguistically common and should be inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Group therapy came from the simple idea that a group of people can be a kind of therapy when they meet to talk and support one another. That's why it means 'therapy with several people who help each other'.