ABSTRACT
Each one of us spends a significant portion of our lives in groups: family groups, work groups, neighborhood groups, church groups, social groups—the list could go on ad infinitum. Periodically, in the course of our interaction in these groups, we find ourselves sharing or disclosing personal information about our hopes or disappointments, joys or pain, problems or achievements. These disclosures may emanate from the turmoil or excitement within ourselves, from the perceived amenability to sharing observed or experienced in the nature of the group itself, or some combination of the two. What triggers these disclosures are the rudiments upon which the group process as a helping modality is built.
