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Effective working groups can continue their traditions through surprising changes in location, membership, etc.
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Effective Group Design: Shared Understanding pt. 1
Not everyone attaches the same meaning to a particular term. This problem pops up a lot in counseling, treatment, and similar settings.
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Effective Group Design: Assumptions
Building the group model around that common experience, and change-specific tasks or goals, may increase the chances for a successful outcome.
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Stronger Together: Addiction Group Treatment
Practically every form of group devised has been adapted and put to use at some facility.
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Alexithymia: What’s That Feeling?
It’s as if the addict is so accustomed to just acting on impulse that he/she has lost touch with the source of the impulse — ordinarily a negative emotional state such as anxiety, anger, sadness, etc.
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Music Hath Charms
You’re aware that music therapy is used in mental health settings. Playing music is great, but for most of us, it’s enough just to listen and be affected.
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Engaging Coerced DUI Clients
First, they don’t understand why they’re in treatment, or how it could possibly benefit them. Second, they’re ticked off about having been coerced.
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Challenge: Motivating a Group of Court-Referred Clients
Some members are talkative enough, but others participate minimally and a couple are openly hostile and challenging.
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Can I Keep My Patients From Giving Up?
My outpatients get discouraged very easily. They may actually be doing pretty well for somebody new to recovery, but they don’t seem to realize it.
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Do Incentives Work?
Some clients need more frequent reinforcement than others – those with poor impulse control, for instance, or who struggle with cravings, or are less motivated for other reasons.
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