Strategies for the Therapist to overcome challenges

Please provide at least 3 strategies for the therapist to overcome challenges for CBT in group and family settings. Please use in-text citations to support answers with references provided.

The challenges is that group members might engage in catastrophic thinking by dwelling on the worst-case scenarios. Another challenge with group therapy is that it might not be effective with more complex mental needs or learning difficulties as the initial stages of CBT involve self-reflection, which might be emotionally overwhelming and uncomfortable to the client