My Thoughts And Feelings About Therapeutic Work With Groups

Self Reflection My experience in the counseling role has increased my confidence over the current semester. I feel that the extensive practice has paid off tremendously. For example, this course has taught me how to formulate a game plan when starting off my sessions. I now have goals which come with a much improved structure format than I had previously. In addition, I am able to have a much clearer perceptive of my feelings where I previously accepted thoughts as feelings. In this self reflection

Group therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that brings individuals together in a therapeutic setting to work through their individual issues. According to Yalom (2005) installation and maintenance of hope is a crucial for the group process to be therapeutic (Yalom, 2005). In choosing a therapeutic approach to that would best work in facilitating groups, first is to understand the qualities needed to be a competent group therapist. To be competent as a group therapist he/she must have an awareness

Why are personal experiences influence to a person 's thoughts and how does it impact on his or her future jobs both directly and indirectly? Lingiardi, Tanzilli and Colli (2015) mentioned that an advisor 's enthusiastic reaction to a patient can be seen as a wellspring of profitable symptomatic and helpful data, which means the emotional response of a therapist is very important to the patients and the patients would further absorb it or abstain from the therapy. In addition, it is important to

fellow student and I facilitated a group discussion with other students in our seminar to critically reflect on grief reactions, meaning-making theory and therapeutic communication from an article we

1. Therapeutic Factors (TF) are apparent and needed in every group experience. Some are created naturally and some are facilitated by the group leader. Reflect on your time as a co-leader and technique leader this semester and select 3 Therapeutic Factors that you experienced from the leader chair. A) List, define, and discuss each therapeutic factor. B) For each TF discuss specific examples of how these were apparent to you and how they were created. (CACREP 2.F.6.C) (1 page; 4 points) As I reflect

will discuss the importance of having a theoretical orientation when working with individuals, families, and treatment groups. One of the main reasons for a theoretical orientation is because it gives the social worker a framework of reference to understand the therapeutic needs of the client. It provides the social worker with a theory-based framework for generating hypotheses about the client’s experience and behaviors, which in turn helps prepare the basis for a specific treatment intervention. This

Therapeutic Factors (TF) are apparent and needed in every group experience. Some are created naturally and some are facilitated by the group leader. Reflect on your time as a co-leader and technique leader this semester and select 3 Therapeutic Factors that you experienced from the leader chair. A) List, define, and discuss each therapeutic factor. B) For each TF discuss specific examples of how these were apparent to you and how they were created. (CACREP 2.F.6.C) (1 page; 4 points) As I reflect

forgive her and hated her, despite no evidence to suggest such feelings from Joe. Furthermore, Joe’s interactions suggested that he genuinely loved/missed his mother and is determined to rebuild their relationship. However, this tendency toward arbitrary inference/catastrophizing would invoke near debilitating anxiety as Jane anticipated a phone call or spoke with Joe. Additionally, these experiences would deepen the client’s feelings of shame (e.g. I deserve to be hated, I am a horrible person and

perceived by giving reassurance, that the client's problems are not as serious as they had thought. In this incident, the worst-case scenario is that the client will have reduced motivation to therapy or less desire to change. Feltham and Horton 2006 recognise that many self-help groups work on the principle of group self-disclosure to encourage and challenge clients. They state that these self-help groups may work as it is a peer experience. In one-to-one counselling, it is important to acknowledge

Leeds Metropolitan University Faculty of Health Semester 2 BSc Therapeutic Counselling Issues and Debates in Counselling and Psychotherapy Critically evaluate the arguments for and against one of the subject areas raised in the issues and debates sessions For and Against Cognitive Behavioural therapy Student number: C7017417 Tutor: Kay McFarlane Words: 3834 May 2013 Introduction The aims of this essay are to critically evaluate the arguments for and against