Group Therapy Case Study

This program is from thirty to ninety days. The clients work on the 12 - steps of addiction, complete assignments to understand their disease process, work the steps of addiction along with reading the big book, and discuss the different stories. These assignments are completed on an individual basis and each individual has two weeks before they process their first assessment in a group setting. The big book is also read and discuss in a group setting. The individuals explore there feeling, provide self-affirmation to themselves and others, while voicing a goal for that day, daily through the session group called Grateful.

provide continual support after her treatment plan is completed to promote continual harm reduction and safety. A referral to psychiatrist is also recommended to offer further support of her symptoms of her substance use and mental health issues.

(Location Name) is here to handle all of your recovery needs. As we know that recovery is a hard journey to embark upon, it has become our main focus, to ensure that everyone is afforded the same chance at a sustainable recovery. A recovery that is free from relapse, free from shame and free from fear.

Virginia is a 50 years-old white Caucasian female widow, who lost her husband 18 months ago at the age of 56 years. She lives in suburbs with her 50 years old son who face challenges with intellectual disability. She is active and able to take care of her son who has mental challenge. Virginia has frequently visited her primary doctor as result, of the symptoms she is expiring on daily bases. These symptoms are indicated as early signs of depression in older adults; which might be as a result of grieving over the death of her husband, and in cooperation of taking care of her son.

Group counseling is where a group of people meet together with a trained facilitator. The size of group can vary, but these groups typically have between five and eight people. There are many ways that you can benefit from group counseling, or group therapy. Below is a list of some of those benefits:

Group members may provide examples of how other children coped and related to the abuse. The child gains new perspectives and insights which subsequently broadens the child’s array of coping mechanism (Wickham & West, 2002).

Group therapy is an important part of occupational therapy in the acute mental health setting. OTs will use a wide variety of groups, each with their own therapeutic function and objective. There are two broad (four types) categories of therapy groups used: activity based (task and social) and support based (communication and psychotherapy) (Lloyd, 2010). Task groups are end-product driven and aim to help clients develop skills. Social groups focus on encouraging social interaction and provide recreation and fun for clients. Communication groups provide a place for clients to share similar experiences. Lastly, psychotherapy groups try to shed light on individual’s problems.

Staff that are typically involved in the treatment process are a psychiatrist, a nurse, a dietician, and social worker if applicable. The coordination is provided when the client first enters the program. The patient is put on both the nurse and psychiatrist schedule for weekly follow ups. If the patient is in the eating disorder program, they also need to meet with the dietician.

= There are many forms of treatment for psychological disorders. One of the main ones happens to be therapy. There are multiple forms of therapies, the top two being individual and group therapy. In my defense, group therapy is the best one. Group therapy allows for individuals to share experiences that allows other individuals to relate and learn from one another because they share the same disorder. Group therapy also allows one to receive feedback that is not bias from family and therapist whose job it is to help you based of books and learning they have encountered over the years. However, individual therapy can hold some perks to it. Individual therapy can offer full attention to one patient in the one on one between the client and therapist.

The first day on the unit I was able to participate in a mood therapy group. The group had about ten participants including the leader and myself. The group first discussed the difference between emotional minds, reasonable minds and wise minds. The members gave examples of what they thought each mind might look like. All of the participants had a chance to share what each looks like to them and some shared a time that they used each mind. After comparing the minds, we participated in a drawing project. The project was meant to provide some relaxation and debriefing of the previously provided information. During the full duration of the group meeting, there was on patient that was particularly hesitant to the project. She did not think that

Of course, initial gravitations to use controlled substances may be a personal decision, which in time becomes more of a compulsion. However, as successful recovery from an addiction will soon afford an individual to regain control mentally and physically, it is highly probable that consent to indulge will diminish. As such, the psychotherapeutic approach to working with Katrina would include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with empathetic, encouraging support for self-actualizing personal abilities to transform addictive behaviors and dependencies. Motivational interviewing (MI) is beneficial to helping Katrina stay motivated to not only diligently strive for reaching the rehabiliatated point or position of recovery, but it could also encourage her to help others in his or her road to recovery as well (Van Wormer & Davis, 2013; Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2017; National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2016).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the client’s distorted thoughts and helps the client change those distorted thought processes in order to change their overall behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a widely used theory in the field of psychology and can be extremely helpful in a group setting.

NF was agitated during the visit. NF mentioned that he received a voicemail from his therapist stating that she was going to contact CW if he failed to attend his individual therapy session this week. NF has not attended therapy the past two weeks because he has no one to care for Isabella. NF mentioned that he's tried contacting her these past two weeks but was not successful. The receptionist that answered the phone only spoke English. NF only gets a short lunch break and does not want to spend his entire lunch break on the phone. NF mentioned that work has been picking up and his brother has been required to stay longer. NF has to leave at 2 pm from work in order to be back in Boulder City by 5:00-5:30 pm to pick up Isabella. The daycare

I used to work for a therapeutic community that provided intensive group therapy for children with special needs for 5 days a week, in the opposite shift of their school hours. This type of therapy simulates social environment, so the children learn how to behave adaptatively. We had clients from ages 4 to 11, and they presented aggressive behaviors due to psychological issues such as sexual harassment, autistic spectrum and oppositional defiant disorder.

In this section of the study, the authors explain all steps in more details and clearly state the results between the control and treatment groups. The different parts of the results sections include: in vitro differentiation of ABMCs, neurological functional recovery in ABMC-treated canine model, localization of ABMCs at the spinal cord injury site, and molecular and electron microscopic features of ABMC-induced remyelination. Each part of the result section has appropriately been addressed with pictures and graphs, which truly helped me in understanding the respective results. The explanation is clear and understandable in each part since the investigators appropriately compared the findings between control and treatment groups.