This week we have begun to explore the eleven primary factors of group therapy: instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, the corrective recapitulation of the primary family group, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, interpersonal learning, group cohesiveness, catharsis, and existential factors. Having gone into this assignment with the understanding that hope plays an essential part in therapy, whether group or individual, instillation of hope proved itself as the obvious factor of most importance. Without the client having hope, or to put it another way, the belief that therapy can even help them, the other ten factors would not surface and healing would never begin. Likewise, Yalom explained
