Individual Therapy
A. Individual Therapy
Individual therapy refers to therapy sessions with one client and the social worker. Individual sessions with a Social worker average about 45 minutes to one hour long.
Therapy provides a confidential, safe and nurturing space to look at yourself and your personal issues. It serves as a type of mirror which provides a spectator position onto one’s own life, helping one to make sense of how things fit together. Within this experience the client and therapist work together to unlock the wisdom and solutions clients carry within themselves, but cannot claim for various reasons. Successful therapy leaves one feeling empowered, with a deepened understanding and feeling that one is taking charge of your life, even if ‘taking …show more content…
charge’ means finding a new way of living with that which cannot be changed
. Our individual counseling covers but not limited to the following:
• Trauma Counselling • Depression and anxiety • Personal Relationships • Pre-marital preparation • Parental guidance • Life Coaching • Bullying • Teenager/Young Adult Counselling • Bereavement and loss • Emotional experience in physical illness • HIV/Aids counselling • Pre-marital counselling • Emotional and physical abuse • Sexual abuse • Self-love and acceptance • Life changing experiences • Adolescent counselling • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Education/ career counselling • Believing in yourself • Teenage pregnancy
B.
Family Therapy
Family therapy is based on the belief that the family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication. These patterns are determined by many factors, including the parents' beliefs and values, the personalities of all family members, and the influence of the extended family (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). As a result of these variables, each family develops its own unique personality, which is powerful and affects all of its members. Family therapy is based on the following concepts as well:
• Illness in one family member may be a symptom of a larger family problem. To treat only the member who is identified as ill is like treating the symptom of a disease but not the disease itself. • Any change in one member of the family affects both the family structure and each member individually.
A family Social Worker/ therapist assist families in:
• Teaching family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how their own
functions. • Focusing less on the member who has been identified as ill and focus more on the family as a whole. • Identifying conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to resolve them. • Strengthening all family members so they can work on their problems together. • Teaching ways to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently. Sometimes the way family members handle problems makes them more likely to develop symptoms.
Other services offered with Families: • Bereavement and loss • Marriage counselling • Divorce • Adjustments/ mixed marriages • Life changing experiences • Family disputes • Step parenting • Change or loss of employment • Infected and affected by HIV/Aids • Disability • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Life threatening/ terminal diseases
C. Group Therapy
Group therapy is a form of psychosocial treatment where a small group of patients/individuals/students meet regularly to talk, interact, and discuss problems with each other and the Social Worker.
Group therapy attempts to give individuals a safe and comfortable place where they can work out problems and emotional issues. Patients gain insight into their own thoughts and behavior, and offer suggestions and support to others. In addition, patients who have a difficult time with interpersonal relationships can benefit from the social interactions that are a basic part of the group therapy experience
The group therapy session is a collaborative effort in which the Social Worker assumes clinical responsibility for the group and its members. In a typical session, which lasts about 75-90 minutes, members work to express their own problems, feelings, ideas and reactions as freely and honestly as possible? Such exploration gives the group the important information needed to understand and help one another. Members learn not only to understand themselves and their own issues but also become "therapeutic helpers" for other members
Like individual therapy, group therapy can benefit almost anyone. Some of the issues typically addressed include: • Difficulties with interpersonal relationships • Problems facing children and adolescents (such as impact from a divorce, peer issues, learning or behavioural problems) • Aging • Teenage pressures • Identity crisis • Bullying • Medical illness • Depression and anxiety • Bereavement and loss • Trauma • Lifestyle issues within a traditional culture • Personality disorders • Life changing experiences • Life skills • Family disputes • Step parenting • Change or loss of employment • Infected and affected by HIV/Aids • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Life threatening/ terminal diseases • Believing in yourself • Teenage pregnancy • Sex education • Sexual abuse • Emotional and physical abuse • Conflict Management • Identifying and managing troubled children
D. Occupational/ Employee Assistance Interventions
An organization’s workforce is a critical part of its success or failure. Occupational social workers help employees with problems that affect their job performance and satisfaction. Just as important, they also help the corporations, businesses, and associations that hire them. Occupational social workers help corporations re-engineer their structure and methods to improve efficiency, creativity, productivity, and moral. They may also work for a union and be involved in job counseling or organizing
The Social Worker also deals with substance abuse, domestic violence, single parenting, and vocational rehabilitation issues. Many of our programs manages mental health benefits for corporations
People problems' is the short answer. That is, where employees are having difficulties which are adversely affecting their performance and/or commitment. This includes (but is not limited to): • Stress and workload management issues • Bullying and harassment • Depression, anxiety or other mental health problems • Alcohol and/or drug abuse; • Interpersonal conflict • Poor teamwork • Barriers to learning and development • Grief reactions as a result of loss or trauma • Discrimination, aggression and violence. • Absenteeism • Productivity and motivational services • Trauma counselling • HIV/Aids Counselling • Awareness campaigns • Motivational Speaking • Stress and conflict management • Wellness program • Workplace relationship management
E. Social Facilitation/Community Work
Any project is a collaborative effort between all the individuals and organizations involved. All stakeholders need to operate in synergy with each other and work together to maintain effective and continual communication between the parties. It is also important to maintain stakeholder support throughout the project, for the project to meet its objectives. Community participation is crucial for the success of any project.
Social Facilitation is a customized and individualized approach to help increase understanding of social situations and modify responses which will allow the community and other role players understand the objectives and goals of the project and most importantantly understand and identify with the project
As Social Facilitator in the projects, I ensure the facilitation and management of community participation in the project. My role further involves communication and Liaison with service providers, and all relevant stakeholders, maintaining the essential network to ensure smooth and successful implementation of the project. This includes but not limited to the following:
• Community Liaison and mobilization • Project Steering Committee Establishment and Training • Facilitation of Community Liaison Office appointment • Facilitation of Identification of Local Labourers and Builders • Attend to the community concerns during the project • Provide a link between local resources and the contractor • Identification of community and related infrastructure needs • Project Co-ordination and Management • Management of infrastructure projects • Team building • Conflict resolution [pic]
Individual therapy refers to therapy sessions with one client and the social worker. Individual sessions with a Social worker average about 45 minutes to one hour long.
Therapy provides a confidential, safe and nurturing space to look at yourself and your personal issues. It serves as a type of mirror which provides a spectator position onto one’s own life, helping one to make sense of how things fit together. Within this experience the client and therapist work together to unlock the wisdom and solutions clients carry within themselves, but cannot claim for various reasons. Successful therapy leaves one feeling empowered, with a deepened understanding and feeling that one is taking charge of your life, even if ‘taking …show more content…
charge’ means finding a new way of living with that which cannot be changed
. Our individual counseling covers but not limited to the following:
• Trauma Counselling • Depression and anxiety • Personal Relationships • Pre-marital preparation • Parental guidance • Life Coaching • Bullying • Teenager/Young Adult Counselling • Bereavement and loss • Emotional experience in physical illness • HIV/Aids counselling • Pre-marital counselling • Emotional and physical abuse • Sexual abuse • Self-love and acceptance • Life changing experiences • Adolescent counselling • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Education/ career counselling • Believing in yourself • Teenage pregnancy
B.
Family Therapy
Family therapy is based on the belief that the family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication. These patterns are determined by many factors, including the parents' beliefs and values, the personalities of all family members, and the influence of the extended family (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). As a result of these variables, each family develops its own unique personality, which is powerful and affects all of its members. Family therapy is based on the following concepts as well:
• Illness in one family member may be a symptom of a larger family problem. To treat only the member who is identified as ill is like treating the symptom of a disease but not the disease itself. • Any change in one member of the family affects both the family structure and each member individually.
A family Social Worker/ therapist assist families in:
• Teaching family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how their own
functions. • Focusing less on the member who has been identified as ill and focus more on the family as a whole. • Identifying conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to resolve them. • Strengthening all family members so they can work on their problems together. • Teaching ways to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently. Sometimes the way family members handle problems makes them more likely to develop symptoms.
Other services offered with Families: • Bereavement and loss • Marriage counselling • Divorce • Adjustments/ mixed marriages • Life changing experiences • Family disputes • Step parenting • Change or loss of employment • Infected and affected by HIV/Aids • Disability • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Life threatening/ terminal diseases
C. Group Therapy
Group therapy is a form of psychosocial treatment where a small group of patients/individuals/students meet regularly to talk, interact, and discuss problems with each other and the Social Worker.
Group therapy attempts to give individuals a safe and comfortable place where they can work out problems and emotional issues. Patients gain insight into their own thoughts and behavior, and offer suggestions and support to others. In addition, patients who have a difficult time with interpersonal relationships can benefit from the social interactions that are a basic part of the group therapy experience
The group therapy session is a collaborative effort in which the Social Worker assumes clinical responsibility for the group and its members. In a typical session, which lasts about 75-90 minutes, members work to express their own problems, feelings, ideas and reactions as freely and honestly as possible? Such exploration gives the group the important information needed to understand and help one another. Members learn not only to understand themselves and their own issues but also become "therapeutic helpers" for other members
Like individual therapy, group therapy can benefit almost anyone. Some of the issues typically addressed include: • Difficulties with interpersonal relationships • Problems facing children and adolescents (such as impact from a divorce, peer issues, learning or behavioural problems) • Aging • Teenage pressures • Identity crisis • Bullying • Medical illness • Depression and anxiety • Bereavement and loss • Trauma • Lifestyle issues within a traditional culture • Personality disorders • Life changing experiences • Life skills • Family disputes • Step parenting • Change or loss of employment • Infected and affected by HIV/Aids • Substance Dependence/ Abuse • Life threatening/ terminal diseases • Believing in yourself • Teenage pregnancy • Sex education • Sexual abuse • Emotional and physical abuse • Conflict Management • Identifying and managing troubled children
D. Occupational/ Employee Assistance Interventions
An organization’s workforce is a critical part of its success or failure. Occupational social workers help employees with problems that affect their job performance and satisfaction. Just as important, they also help the corporations, businesses, and associations that hire them. Occupational social workers help corporations re-engineer their structure and methods to improve efficiency, creativity, productivity, and moral. They may also work for a union and be involved in job counseling or organizing
The Social Worker also deals with substance abuse, domestic violence, single parenting, and vocational rehabilitation issues. Many of our programs manages mental health benefits for corporations
People problems' is the short answer. That is, where employees are having difficulties which are adversely affecting their performance and/or commitment. This includes (but is not limited to): • Stress and workload management issues • Bullying and harassment • Depression, anxiety or other mental health problems • Alcohol and/or drug abuse; • Interpersonal conflict • Poor teamwork • Barriers to learning and development • Grief reactions as a result of loss or trauma • Discrimination, aggression and violence. • Absenteeism • Productivity and motivational services • Trauma counselling • HIV/Aids Counselling • Awareness campaigns • Motivational Speaking • Stress and conflict management • Wellness program • Workplace relationship management
E. Social Facilitation/Community Work
Any project is a collaborative effort between all the individuals and organizations involved. All stakeholders need to operate in synergy with each other and work together to maintain effective and continual communication between the parties. It is also important to maintain stakeholder support throughout the project, for the project to meet its objectives. Community participation is crucial for the success of any project.
Social Facilitation is a customized and individualized approach to help increase understanding of social situations and modify responses which will allow the community and other role players understand the objectives and goals of the project and most importantantly understand and identify with the project
As Social Facilitator in the projects, I ensure the facilitation and management of community participation in the project. My role further involves communication and Liaison with service providers, and all relevant stakeholders, maintaining the essential network to ensure smooth and successful implementation of the project. This includes but not limited to the following:
• Community Liaison and mobilization • Project Steering Committee Establishment and Training • Facilitation of Community Liaison Office appointment • Facilitation of Identification of Local Labourers and Builders • Attend to the community concerns during the project • Provide a link between local resources and the contractor • Identification of community and related infrastructure needs • Project Co-ordination and Management • Management of infrastructure projects • Team building • Conflict resolution [pic]