Group Treatment of Depression.

Group treatment of depressed clients has been found to be therapeutically advantageous. As the group members relate to each other, they tend to be less manipulative of and dependent on the worker. In this paper three stages of treatment are identified—mutual mourning, ego reactivation, and mastery—and the rationale for specific therapeutic interventions and case examples are given. A group treatment approach, based on the integration of casework and group treatment methodology, is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]