 When we talk about group therapy, this is very important to see that there are certain advantages of group therapy over individual therapy. And friends and support of peer in the treatment process may facilitate gains that would be slow or unlikely in individual treatment. When an individual is taking his treatment, he does not have any source in which he can compare his progress, his health, his thoughts with another individual. So group therapy gives you an opportunity in which you can compare that within the timeframe of three weeks, I am better than the help of this therapy and my peers are better. My disruptive thoughts have changed so much and other's disruptive thoughts are getting worse compared to mine. So these are the things that you can compare in the form of a group and it is an advantage of group therapy. Then the group may also become a special therapeutic ecology within which special insights and awareness may develop. At times it goes so good hand-in-hand that the whole group of peers and they are trying to get out of their problems together. They make a strategy based on their discussion which comforts each other, soothes and supports each other and it becomes much easier for them to get out of their problems. Now with the disadvantages always come some disadvantages, so some of the disadvantages may likely to be as follows. Like group members lack proper training and ability to adequately monitor the experiences of all members. Let's say you have brought all the mothers who are handicapped and they are going through a caregiver burden. And to properly monitor all of them there are no adequate therapists who are trained enough to understand the emotions of a mother. And the problems of the handicapped children, physical, psychological and emotional, they have no understanding of them. So at times in that group the catharsis of each other can produce more negativity and more anonymity. So it is very important that the role of the moderator in the group is very strong and they can properly lead those things so that the group develops a positive synergy. Rather than creating a more negative situation in the group and before people go to their homes, they should take more anonymity, more pain and more pain in the heart. Rather than feeling good and light after the catharsis and not feeling miserable in your life. Then pressure towards cohesion and emotional expressiveness, common in group therapy can be inappropriate for some clients. At times, as I gave an example, the scenes of crime re-acqument sometimes lead unhealthy minds towards learning a crime rather than seeking something good out of it. Similarly in group therapy some people who have negative emotions, negative experiences can lead vulnerable clients towards acquiring those behaviour as a success rather than thinking about it as a behaviour which should be diminished. So we need to be very careful, a psychotherapist should be a very perfect person, a very trained person to logo ki un emotions ko properly deal karna jaanta ho, rather than ke wo ek negative side par jo hai unke emotions ruhi hai wo develop hona churu ho jaain. Then the group therapist has much less control over the content and direction of the session than does an individual therapist. Individual therapist mein one to one session ho ga jo baat aap chahare hai aap wo karenge jaan aapne baat ko turn karna aap turn kar sakhi. But in group therapy main when everyone is speaking, everyone is giving their emotional experiences, wo haapar iss chance ko hum dekhne ki ye minimise ho chaata hai. So expertise ka involve hona yaha bohot zharuri hai. Ta ke wo sari jo group ki discussion hai usko positively channelise kiya jaa sakhi. Then problems might include stress resulting from confrontation, criticism, threats to confidentiality, and even development of dependency on the group. Ta ye sari situations ho sakhti hai jo group ke disadvantages ho sakhti hai. Ye aap kisi dosite group pey a client pey itna depend karne lag jaain ki japta k aap unse mishvirana karne aap apna problem-solving na kar sakhe hai. Ye at times aap intimate karne dusi logon ke behaviour ke saad, ke achha iss ko iss situation mein self-harm kar ke fahida hoa tha, to mujhe bhi ye fahida ho sakta tha. Ye iss ko shout karne se ye gains mil rahe hai to mujhe bhi mil sakte hai. To iss chis ko rokhne ke liye ye bohot zharuri hai ke ek proper supervise therapist, iss sari discussion ko iss sari therapy ko lead kare aur uski andar iss raha ke lapsis ke chances na ho. Therapist leading group should ensure few important points to control the negative outcome. Provide informed consent. Then ensure voluntary participation. Then conduct proper screening of the participants. Then carefully differentiate roles between whether the group is intended as therapeutic group, as an educational group. Ye jo last pointer ye sapsi zada important hai. Kyuki agar to we ek therapy ka group hai, to uski andar responsibility aur zada different nature ki hoogi. Agar we ek educational group hai, to usme jo hai, wo therapy ka response hai wo different tara ka. Jise hum, educational sector mein growth groups krte hai, log apne problems leke aate hai, discuss krte hai, woha pe scenario farak ut hai. Lekin jab hum usko ek tara putic intervention mein krte hai, to it gives a different meaning and different connotations. So we need to understand that all these sections need to be ticked and checked properly to that the full purpose, the full benefit of group therapy may be achieved.