GROUP THERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does group therapy mean? 

• GROUP THERAPY (noun)
  The noun GROUP THERAPY 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 THERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUP THERAPY (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 therapy" 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 therapy"):

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

 Context examples 

Grief therapy may be individual or group therapy.

(Grief therapy, NCI Dictionary)