Essays on Group Therapy

Review of Initial Treatment Plan

Eliza suffers from situational anxiety based on the DMS IV criteria for diagnosis (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV. 1994). In this case, Eliza approached for treatment and recovery. She accepted that she suffered from depression, stress, and anxiety due to her sudden change in life, specifically her movement into college and life without her parents. The initial treatment plan focused on determining the reasons for low self-esteem, assessing her relationship with her parents to determine how they may have impacted psychological issues that Eliza suffers at the present day. The initial treatment goal was to prevent ...

Introduction

A recent report of the International Longevity Center-UK (ILC-UK) indicated that dementia can no longer be viewed as an isolated disorder due to a high prevalence of medical comorbidities, often undiagnosed, associated with it (Scrutton & Brancati, 2016). Patients with dementia also had received a less coordinated comorbidity treatments, resulting to the faster decline of their daily functioning, a reduction in their quality of life (QOL), and earlier mortality events than patients with these comorbidities, but in the absence of dementia. The report also noted other important findings, which exacerbated the need for better therapeutic options in dealing with dementia, ...

Abstract

This research paper will discuss the different ethical issues within group therapy sessions. A therapist should bear particular ethical standards that are required in group therapy sessions. Importantly, counselors should uphold moral codes that guide the group agenda from the formation to the operational stages of the group. Also, this paper will analyze the distinct traits of individual and group counseling. Group counseling involves one counselor attending several clients simultaneously. On the other hand, individual counseling includes a one on one session between a client and therapist. In group counseling, the members may be shy to share their issues ...

Abstract

There are various ethical issues that a counselor can encounter when conducting a group counseling session. Some of the issues are similar to those in the individual counseling, but there are others which are unique. There is an ethical issue of confidentiality where the therapist should not disclose any information about the group members. However, there are definite limits to confidentiality where the counselor can disclose the information. The counselor should uphold his/her professionalism in the session. They must have sufficient knowledge and information on the issues that the members are presenting. All the group members should have enough ...

Philosophy Research Proposal

The research question chosen for this paper is the determination of the existence of a relationship between the type of therapeutic intervention and self-harming behaviors in adolescent girls. The author of this paper has hypothesized that there is indeed a correlation between the type of therapeutic intervention and the resulting self-harming behaviors among adolescent girls. This means that adolescent girls receiving a certain therapeutic intervention will display a more significant decrease in self-harming behaviors as opposed to adolescent girls who do not receive a therapeutic intervention. For the null, hypothesis, it would basically suggest that there is no correlation ...

Treating Adolescent Girls Who Self-Harm

Slide 3 This presentation on a proposed research on treating adolescent girls who self-harm presents the research hypothesis, working variables, measurements, sampling methodology, data collection methods, research design, and the ethical considerations of the study.

Slide 4

The Research Hypothesis (H1) asserts that: Adolescent girls receiving a group therapy intervention will show a more significant decrease in self-harming tendencies when compared to adolescent females receiving individual therapy intervention. Accordingly, the independent variable focuses on the type of treatment intervention while the dependent variable considers the self-harming behaviors among teenage girls.

Slide 5

Identified variables will appear as nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels ...

Introduction

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops because of exposure to a traumatic experience. According to the Institute of Medicine (2012), the vital element of PTSD is the development of the characteristic symptoms that follow exposure to extreme traumatic stressors, including personal experiences. For an event to cause PTSD, it has should have had an actual or implied dire injury or near death experience to the victim. Such events could also threaten one’s physical and psychological integrity. The most common traumatic events happen during military combat, hostage situations, violent assault, torture, terrorist attacks, and disasters. While PSTD is most common ...

Research Design

Introduction The study design is the investigator’s general plan for acquiring answers to the research questions[s] that are guiding the study (Breakwell, Smith, and Wright, 2012, p.8). The intentions of design are to help the researcher plan and execute the research in a way that will aid him or her obtain the intended results, a factor that would increase the chances of acquiring useful information as opposed to irrelevant data. This study will use quantitative and exploratory descriptive designs within a cross-sectional study. The aim is to determine the correlation between self-harm adolescent girls who are receiving ...

Effect on Veterans

Effect on Veterans The effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect many individuals in several different ways, but for war veterans the lasting effects can be extremely debilitating. How this differs from anyone else is that the average soldier who is sent to a war zone is indoctrinated from an early period during their service that they are being bred to serve their country in any capacity necessary. Unfortunately this can mean that they are in effect being trained to die in the name of their country and/or beliefs. Many soldiers are even told that they might not ...

Introduction

As part of the study’s research design and methodology, the covered areas in this section include determining the target population and identifying the sample of the study, the recruitment of participants based on ideal sampling strategies, and the data collection methods.

Research Population

Elmes, Kantowitz, and Roediger, define a population as the entire group of subjects that meet the set conditions, including the whole group of people that is important to the researcher and to whom the results of the study can be applicable (2011, p.25). The population for this research comprises of all adolescent girls aged between 10 and ...

Introduction

Counseling can help people resolve issues in their lives in various ways. However, not all therapies or techniques of counseling will work for every individual. Therefore, it is essential for counselors to understand client needs in order to determine what technique will result in the most effective outcomes. Individual counseling and group counseling are the most popular and commonly used counseling techniques (Jacobs, Masson, Harvill & Schimmel, 2012). Individual counseling is a one-on-one therapy session in which a personalized approach is utilized in guiding and treating an individual. On the other hand, group counseling happens when a counselor works with ...

Proposal for Group Therapy for Bullies

4 July 2011

Proposal for Group Therapy for Bullies

Introduction and Rationale

In every school across the world, bullying is a significant problem. In schools in Alabama, bullying may not be as prominent as it is in other states, but it is still a problem: currently, Alabama is ranked at around the eighth best state for bullying (BullyPolice.org, 2003) meaning that it is currently one of the best states in the country in terms of its lack of bullying. However, just because it is not a bulging issue, it is still a problem – we cannot simply just ignore those students who are being bullied, simply because they are a minority. ...