Therapist Self-Disclosure As an Intervention Toward Normalizing and Eliciting Hope

One of the profound benefits of group therapy is for clients to hear other clients speak about their particular problem and not feel so alone in their own intrapsychic world (Fehr, 1999, 2003). Yet at times, a client may present something that no one in the group can or is willing to identify as an issue salient to them. Thus the disclosure, of the client, is met with group silence strengthening the possibility of future inhibitions where there is less probability that personal information will be divulged.