Group Therapy Vs Individual Treatment

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The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) website provides a great deal of information about addiction and recovery. They have an extensive collection of written material, including a series called Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP). A chapter, in the TIP for group therapy, describes the criteria for placing clients in a particular group. (CSAT, 2005, Chapter 3) Because my study will include participants in both group and individual treatment, I thought this material might shed some light on the reasons one might choose an individual treatment only program. My personal experience tells me that some people want to keep their treatment a secret. This reason doesn’t bode well for my ability to recruit study participants for the individual