Section 2: Psychotherapy: Psychological Approaches to Treatment

3. Define group therapy. Because people are different and are dealing with similar issues they may be able to provide a variety of coping mechanisms to one of the group members and to develop empathy for others with similar problems.

Section 3: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment

5. Biological therapies do treat symptoms. For some illnesses the relief of the symptoms may be all that is required. Most successful therapies are a combination of the medical model with some type of therapy. When symptoms are somewhat relieved, a client may be better able to focus on the underlying problems associated with the illness.