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This chapter provides the rationale and format for a Family Group. The author drew on actual content from a weekly Family Group she facilitated over a 7 year period. The resultant material was condensed into nine salient themes. These are: common emotions from the event until outpatient treatment starts; practical worries; catastrophic reactions (CRs) by proxy; “why me?” and grief and loss; overprotectiveness and letting go; family system disruption, social isolation, and loneliness; uncertainty about the future and what ifs; burnout; and rites of passage and the future. For each topic, representative verbalizations from group participants are first provided. Following that, guided exercises, “helpful hints,” and psychoeducation, as well as multimedia resources are provided to help primary caregivers, and their tier 2 and 3 supports cope with each area of struggle. Ultimately, the therapist-facilitated Family Group’s empathic ambience should cultivate sharing, relatedness, refuge, camaraderie, mentorship, emotional nourishment, and hopefulness.

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Klonoff, P. (2014). Family Group. In: Psychotherapy for Families after Brain Injury. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-8083-0_9

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