Groups for Individuals with Traumatic Histories: Practice Considerations for Social Workers‪.‬

An impressive, ever-expanding body of empirical and theoretical literature describes the affective, social, behavioral, and physiological consequences of psychological trauma. Treatment approaches designed to minimize, ameliorate, and remediate the effects of trauma also have been presented, and the group modality is viewed as a particularly important therapeutic intervention. Foy and colleagues (2001) noted, for example,/p pre By their very nature, many traumatic experiences involve interpersonal violence (e.g., rape, physical assault, domestic violence, torture, or combat) ... Other traumas, especially those resulting from natural disasters or accidents, may not involve interpersonal violence per se, but they do evoke individual reactions of fear, helplessness,