Study on the Efficacy of HE and Therapeutic Group Factors on CR and QoL

"The therapeutic group factors that are worked on in the group session with a psychologist are:~* Altruism.~* Cohesion: feeling of belonging and acceptance in a group.~* Universality: identification with the feelings, ideas or problems of the other group members.~* Interpersonal-internalisation learning: the patient understands himself/herself by sharing his/her experience with the group.~* Interpersonal-externalisation learning: the group offers the patient the possibility to express his own experience and to change his attitudes towards others.~* Counselling.~* Identification: assumption of behavioural patterns of other members as one's own.~* Reactualisation of the family experience.~* Understanding of one's own internal motivations.~* Reciprocal stimulation: the improvement of other members encourages them to solve or approach their problems in a more favourable way.~* Existential factors: empowerment of the individual."