Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women
A Group Leader's Handbook
Chapter One
Guiding Principles
Introduction
Psychological treatments of whatever kind are based on differing theories and understandings
of human development and functioning and incorporate value systems that
focus on different aspects of human behaviour. Our judgement is that these theories
often privilege the understanding of one aspect of human behaviour over others so, for
example, person-centred theory has privileged feelings, psychodynamic theory has
privileged insight, cognitive behavioural theory has privileged thinking, behavioural
theory has privileged behaviour. In what follows we have described briefly the range
of theories and accompanying value systems that we have found useful. We have also
provided a short account of the particular relevance of these theories to our client
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