Background: the theme of this literature review is the group therapy in the Speech Therapy area. To perform it, we studied the texts published in scientific journals of the field, in the last 15 years, in the form of articles, book chapters and dissertations, which were focused on the group therapy. Purpose: the goal is to identify, understand and discuss, the following themes: 1) the theoretical principles that justify the indication of group therapy, structuring and maintaining it in order to explain how the dynamics of the group may act on the symptoms; 2) the criteria for the composition and formation of groups and especially, 3) the intervention of speech therapists and the possibility of their therapeutic effectiveness. Conclusion: it was concluded that the literature review on group therapy in the area of Speech Therapy identified different practices, linked to different theoretical perspectives. Regarding the criteria for group formation, the function of the speech therapist in the group, the prevalence of the group intervention in relation to the individual intervention, and there were differences of opinion since the review of the literature did not correspond to the expected theoretical consistency. This happened because there is a certain reflected adoption of concepts from other areas, without argumentation and without a restructuring demanded by the transposition to the speech therapy clinic. This is because there is no evident concern to articulate the theoretical studies to the elements that make up the speech therapy clinic, namely: the semiology, the etiology, the diagnosis and the therapeutics.
Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences; Language Disorders; Language Therapy; Peer Group