A treatment module for a laundry treatment device includes a number of treatment brushes, which are each intended for contact with a laundry item to be treated. In order to organize a smoothing process in the most optimum possible way, each two treatment brushes form at least one pair and are disposed in a treatment position relative to one another or are able to be disposed in the treatment position, in which the treatment brushes of the at least one pair lie opposite one another so that, upon positioning of a laundry item between the treatment brushes of the at least one pair, they are in contact with both sides of the laundry item.