The treatment I would recommend Mr. X is cognitive-behavioral therapy. According to Beck most cognitive-behavioral therapy has been of the two best-known psychotherapies for unipolar depression (Beck). Cognitive-behavioral therapy will help Mr. X deal with his current problems. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a good way to help Mr. X evaluate how accurate his dysfunctional and negative beliefs of himself are. Cognitive-behavioral therapy will also uncover where his pessimistic beliefs are deriving from and how to change those beliefs. In addition, I would also like Mr. X to attend family and marital therapy. It appears that his symptoms had been present for years. This could mean that his family contributed to the offset of his depression.…
Cognitive behavioral; therapy (CBT) was developed as an aide to prevent relapse when treating addiction. CBT is based on the principle that the learning process is important in dealing with male adaptive behaviors like substance abuse. It is a process of identifying problematic behaviors and corrects them with various skills to fight addiction. CBT is based on identifying an individual’s problems and helping the individual’s self-control by developing the ways to cope with the problems effectively. This is done by evaluating the consequences of the substance abuse positive and negative, self-monitoring and recognizing the cravings and their triggers, and developing strategies to cope with the cravings and the triggers. Avoiding the trigger situations also help. In CBT an individual may have a support group to depend on during the recovery process. Such a group is helpful while a person is struggling with solutions. The group also gives positive encouragement during stressful times. In CBT an individual addict is encouraged for positive thinking rather than dwelling in negative thought patterns. CBT can help addicts with low self-esteem to improve their self-esteem which helps in fighting addiction. In CBT an individual learns to resist peer pressure. During CBT an individual can continue his/her normal activities which avoids strained relationships and financial crises. It is a gradual process both in learning, maintaining and being on their own.…
Researchers define group work as a method of social work that is utilised in order to `help individuals to enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences, and to cope more effectively with their personal, group or community problems`. This definition shows a tradition within group work of helping individuals with problems. Further research provides a modernised and more comprehensive definition of group…
individual therapy sessions) or as a group (i.e. group therapy). As mentioned earlier, regardless of the setting, the most common form of individual therapy for this population is CBT. With that being said, the use of group therapy is critical in community settings. The reasoning why is because participation in group therapy has the ability to allow one’s comfort level to rise drastically which, in turn, increases the likelihood of an individual opening up. The use of group therapy provides support and motivates one to continue intervention measures that a therapist alone can’t necessarily provide. For example, when one hears about someone else struggling with a similar issue, it allows them to recognize that they’re not alone, which can lead to them feeling empowered to help improve themselves. Consequently, this helps improves one’s mental stability, which is the underlying goal of mental health courts. In addition to therapeutic approaches, mental health courts attempt to help these individuals seek employment in a field that best fits their skills. By helping one seek employment, improvements in living conditions are taking…
The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, ISSN 0193-3922, 03/2004, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp…
Groups may be defined in many ways, indeed providing an absolute definition of a group, as with much of the theory around group work, is highly problematic and contestable. However for the purposes of discussing groupwork within a context of working with young people we may define a group as a small gathering of young people. Group work may simplistically be described as the study and application of the processes and outcomes experienced when a small group comes together.…
Mindful-Based Cognitive Therapy is an eight week group based program that helps people learn how to use relaxation techniques to pay attention to the current moment. It teaches the participants to become aware of their feeling and manage them, instead of being overcome by them. It is a mix of cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation practices to help manage the feeling associated with depression. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has been proven to reduce relapse risk after a depressive occurrence.…
The objective for stage one “Orientation and cognitive networking”, in its simplest form, is to shape prosocial group behavior. Let us develop skills and behaviors that are conducive to group therapy. This includes developing positive communication skills that include proper topics of conversation, active listening, turn taking, waiting and basic levels of reflecting. To accomplish these goals behavioral treatment utilizing the principles of applied behavior analysis mainly positive reinforcement through facilitator acknowledgement will be…
Yalom, I.D., Leszcz, M. (2005) the Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. New York, NY: Basic Books.…
Group therapy has been an effective tool, utilized in the fields of medicine for over a hundred years with many favorable results. These groups in the beginning were undefined by therapeutic definition, yet primarily comprised of members with similar inflictions. Grouping in society is considered natural, but this process was considered unnatural in the ideology of a therapeutic value at the time. Cormack (2015) states that groups setting will produce conditions similar to those a client will face in real life and offers opportunity face and correct the problem. Though group therapy may offer both an economic and a therapeutic solution to specific aspects of recovery, over the life of this process a divide between open and closed groups has…
Initial sessions provide Adlerian therapists with an opportunity to observe and assess clients in order to gauge their family dynamics, present…
Group therapy. Group therapy provides a forum to communicate with and learn from others in a similar situation. It may also help build better relationship…
In the initial stage of group development, members begin to develop their relationship with one another and learn what is expected of them. Group members rely on safe, patterned behaviour and look to the group leader for guidance and direction. Group members have a desire for acceptance by the group and a need to be known that the group is safe (Corey, 1995). They set about gathering impressions and data about the similarities and differences among them and forming preferences for future subgrouping. Rules of behaviour seem to be to keep things simple and to avoid controversy. Serious topics and feelings are avoided.…
*Group members will develop a picture of who their want to be and come to understand what is preventing them from being that person…
Since its inception, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been at the forefront of addressing clinical problems within student populations (Allen, 2011). Created by psychiatrist Aaron Beck, in 1960's, cognitive-behavioral therapy is an empirically researched therapy method that specializes in finding solutions to current problems and teaching clients skills to alter dysfunctional thinking and behavior ("What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy | Beck Institute," n.d.). While CBT was initially developed for adults suffering from specific disorders such as depression, anxiety, and phobias, CBT has found success in addressing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, interpersonal development of children and adolescents (Joyce-Beaulieu & Sulkowski,…