Group Analysis : A Group Therapy Setting

Have any of you ever procrastinated before? If the answer was yes, you would not be the only one. We all procrastinate from time to time. Statistics showed that procrastination affects over 20 percent of the population, and 85 to 95 percent of students have problems associated with procrastination. All the time, not doing the important task when we know we should can lead to anxiety, guilt, stress, and even depression. In the reality, the activities we were doing while procrastinating are never fun or relaxing because we know we should be doing work. So, procrastination is so horrific, then why do we do it? Therefore, today, there are two subtopics procrastination that I want to talk about which are the reasons why we procrastinate and some strategies on how to avoid it.

Procrastination, we’ve all been guilty of it at one point or another. But what is procrastination and how does it play a role in one’s academic performance? Procrastination is defined as consciously delaying a responsibility to a later point in time, classically the last minute, before attending to it. As you might imagine, this habit amongst university students is quite popular.

Student success day was a great learning experince. I attended the “How to kick your procrastination” session led by professor Steven Hartlaub. In this hour long course I learned what procrastination is, why we do it, and how we can't stop it. The science behind procrastination is very interesting,yet complex. Procrastination often stems from our mixed or negative feelings about a certain task. These tasks often deal with intimidation, fear of failure, or a lack of passion. As a result, we may view tasks as things to be overcome rather than experienced or achieved. As a student in college procrastination is an enemy of my success.

Procrastination is a term used to describe one putting off tasks until later on in the foreseeable future. As harmless as this sounds, procrastination can cause people to feel unnecessarily stressed when it happens often. It was proven that graduate students procrastinate at higher rates than previously thought (Onwuegbuzie, 2004), and Scher and Osterman (2002) found it somewhat difficult to study procrastination in children. Undergraduate students are in a rather interesting time, where they are in the midst of transitioning from a high school senior to a college freshman. During this time, they are still trying to figure out how to best handle the shift they are experiencing.

Group therapy is lead by a trained specialist that focuses on skill building and one’s interpersonal process. Group therapy has an associated fee, and only holds a certain number of sessions (Lewis, 2014). In Group therapy, clients help clients through listening, providing support to one another, making suggestions, and simply being there for people (Lewis, 2014). In group therapy, the therapist will present the client with some material that they can learn from, and then get the client to build their skills. An example of group therapy is AA (Lewis, 2014). The purpose of group therapy is to help the clients through the different stages of change and work towards recovery (Lewis, 2014).

Procrastination is a habit that has existed since the beginning of time and it certainly a problem for many students. Procrastinators actively look for distractions, particularly ones that doesn 't take much of commitment on their part; playing games are almost perfect for this purpose. Procrastinator distracts themselves as a way of regulating their emotions such as fear of failure. They also may actually think they get a thrill out of delaying their work and believe they work best under pressure. At its core, student procrastinate to keep themselves happy in the moment until they’re pulling an all-nighter to meet the deadline they had weeks to prepare for. Furthermore, I am not an exemption procrastinating dwell in me. Procrastinating is

Procrastination has a negative effect on college students because it can affect them after college dealing with their careers, bills, families, and self-esteem. One study of undergraduate students at a US university found that majority of students tend to procrastinate

The deadline for this paper is one week away and I've written just this sentence. Every time I sat down to start, my mind would drift away and I would think about anything but this. There always seems to be something that is far more important or interesting that needs to be taken care of first. The deadline is getting closer and I am starting to get anxious on whether or not I am going to finish in time, yet I do this to myself all of the time. These actions and feelings are considered textbook traits of procrastination. Defined as the act of delaying the completion of one task in favor of another less urgent or more pleasurable task, procrastination can affect people in all walks of life (2007). The purpose of this paper is to discuss and explore the growing phenomenon of procrastination and its effects on academic achievement as well as offer tips on how to combat it.

    Procrastination is a well-known habit of a majority of students. This mindset, whether intentional or unintentional, occurs when it comes to accomplishing classwork, projects, or even basic life tasks. Putting these tasks aside to do later will eventually become become problematic. A good

Universally common to college students, procrastination is often addressed as a bad habit. Yet, in most cases, this isn't a nuance, but a perpetual occurrence - no longer qualifying for the term "habit." Typically thought of as a behavioral trait, procrastination thrives on a cycle of blame shifting and avoidance. Falling victim to this "habit" myself, I embarked on a mission to seek out the causes of procrastination.

According to the article (Magazine: Journal do- Genetic Psychology, December 1999), procrastination is referred as the act of needlessly delaying a task until the point of some discomfort. This is a behavior problem that many adults experience on a regular basis. In this paper I will be talking about two studies that researched about how procrastination hits students. It will also talk about ways to put an end to procrastination and give stories about people who overcame procrastination and achieved their goals. Toward the end I will talk about how procrastination effected me in my first semester.

It is not uncommon to find a college student that is procrastinating, and avoiding work that needs to be finished. When these students are procrastinating they are doing a variety of unrelated activities, such as playing video games or watching videos. Lauren Hensley’s research found three major themes about procrastination: a student feels they work better under pressure so they give themselves less time to complete the task, they learned from prior experience

Procrastination is all too familiar to most of the people and it has become a widespread phenomenon at all ages of life. In childhood, children will make every effort to put off finishing their homework. When they grow up into adults, they start to delay writing up their thesis, repeatedly declare they will start their diets tomorrow, or postpone until deadlines finishing the tasks. Yet people also sometimes struggle to control their procrastination. But things always go against with what they want. This essay revolves around the definition and the negative effects of procrastination, reasons for procrastination behaviors and the effective solution to procrastination behaviors.

With the support of various research and testimonials, group counseling has shown to be valuable and as effective in comparison to individual counseling. Many are always surprised at how rewarding group therapy can be. Group interactions provide a chance to interact with others who are having similar issues.

It is undeniable that most students include university students have the habit of procrastination mostly in their homework, reports and assignments. They usually like to delay their works and do them last minutes. Beswick and Mann (1994) state that procrastination is the action of delaying the beginning or completing an intended course. Ferrari and Pychyl (2008) state that the habit of procrastination brings a lot of negative effects to the students, such as low achievement of students or increase their physical and psychological problems. There are three reasons that cause procrastination among the university students, which are distractions, difficulty in regulating emotions and lack of motivation.