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.