Group Psychodrama for Skin Picking

"The psychotherapeutic focus is on the here and now aspect of the patient's relationships. Conflicts are acted out during the sessions, yielding intense emotional re-experience in a safe environment, which will bring further cognitive understanding of past distressful life experiences and hopefully new adaptive ways of expressing and dealing with the problem."

SGT is a form of treatment in which the therapist maintains a therapeutic relationship and a working alliance based on reality, support, clarification, assistance in troubleshooting, strong leadership, partial gratification of dependency needs, legitimating independence, development of pleasurable activities and adequate rest, guidance and advice to deal with current problems. This approach uses techniques to help patients feel safe, accepted, protected, encouraged and not anxious.