Discuss Benefits of Group Therapy
Group remedy is commonly utilized when treating substance abuse and dependancy for a range of causes. Group remedy can present a stage of accountability not present in particular person remedy. One kind of accountability is the use of “sponsors,” a service that’s usually not present in particular person remedy. Therapy teams often embody members who’re at various levels of restoration. This allows group members to work together with others within the remedy group who’re fighting comparable points. Those that are at later levels of restoration can see by means of the defenses (e.g., minimization, denial, and rationalization) that could be displayed by newer remedy group members. The relapse charges for substance abuse and dependancy will be excessive, and, thus, the fee of remedy will be excessive. Group remedy supplies an economical remedy kind by splitting the fee between a number of members.
Typically watching one thing makes the content material “come to life” in a approach that studying doesn’t. This week you get a chance to look at a film that includes group remedy. Extra particularly, you analyze group remedy films which are primarily based on substance abuse or dependancy.
For this Dialogue, assessment one of the recommended films on this week’s Studying Sources. As you watch, discover how the remedy group may differ from different non-substance or dependancy remedy teams. As well as, study how the dynamics of the remedy group are therapeutic and the way this course of is completely different from particular person remedy. Particularly, maintain Yalom’s therapeutic components in thoughts, and see how they play out within the movie’s remedy group.
With these ideas in thoughts:
Day three a short description of the movie you chose. Then, clarify why group remedy is an efficient remedy for substance abuse or dependancy primarily based upon what you noticed within the movie. Lastly, clarify which therapeutic components might need probably the most profit for individuals in group remedy for substance abuse or dependancy. Be particular and use the Studying Sources and present literature to help your response.
You’ll want to help your postings and responses with particular references to the Studying Sources.
Dialogue 2: Expertise and Effectiveness in Group Therapy
How may shoppers really feel if they found that their substance abuse therapist had no private expertise with substance abuse? Would they really feel betrayed? Lied to? Would they even care? Does previous restoration expertise affect the effectiveness of a substance abuse therapist? Therapy is an intensely private journey, and it’s important that shoppers belief their therapist to efficiently information them by means of the method.
For this Dialogue, assessment the media titled “Audio Therapist: Colleague Calling.” Take into consideration the way you may reply to your colleague on the telephone. Think about the connection between effectiveness as a remedy group chief and firsthand expertise with the restoration course of. Use your individual phrases in clear phrases, as if you might be talking on to a colleague.
With these ideas in thoughts:
Put up by Day four your response to the colleague. Embrace how you’d clarify to your colleague how she will convey her effectiveness as a bunch therapist. Present the rationale to your response to the colleague. Be particular and use the Studying Sources and present literature to help your response.
