ABSTRACT
The therapist maintains the safety of the client by diverting attention, changing the subject, refocusing the group attention, or removing the client from the hot seat. The job as therapist includes the responsibility of monitoring not only the client but also ourselves in relation to therapy. Therapist can support and augment the needs of individuals and groups through purposeful decisions about how therapy unfolds. Sensitivity and experience are pluses here. Inherent in these choices is the understanding of where you as the therapist are in relation to the therapeutic process. In making those evaluations, the therapist may act consciously to move the focus of the session from one topic to another, or, in group work, from one group member to another. Drawing out approach aligned with group therapy, family therapy used to incorporate silent or quiet members of the group to provide more information for the group to hear.
