GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does group psychotherapy mean? 

• GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY (noun)
  The noun GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY has 1 sense:

1. psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic

  Familiarity information: GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

group psychotherapy; group therapy

Hypernyms ("group psychotherapy" is a kind of...):

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "group psychotherapy"):

family therapy (any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole)