Group Psychotherapy Puns

I’m just trying to find a fun, interesting, educational, and hopefully easy class for spring to pad my credits

ISBN : 978-0367029883 or 036702988X

URL : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152525435

Hi everyone. I am a graduate student pursuing a masters in science in counseling. Populations I am interested in working with are people with social anxiety disorders, emotional disturbances, and substance abuse addiction disorder. I am also a purple belt and have trained since 2009 (I know, I am taking the scenic route).

If jiu jitsu has helped you with depression, grief, anxiety, emotional regulation, substance abuse, helped you let go of an unhealthy coping mechanism, or just boosted your psychological health or social life in more general ways, I would appreciate you sharing that with me here. It would help me with my work. Just as a disclaimer, if the response here is robust, I would like to share your responses with my peer group, my professors, and other professional counselors doing similar work. For the purpose of review, if you could keep your comments somewhere in the tweet-length range, that would also be helpful. But if you want to share more, don't stop on my account. You never know what will come out.

Edit: Loving the responses! Even the long ones, thank you!

Hi,

I'm going to star a macrodosing psychotherapy group on April. The idea is to follow the Fadiman protocol microdosing with .100mg - .200mg of psilocybin mushrooms two times a week. At the same time, we are going to have a weekly 2hr psychotherapy session to work true the feelings and insights arising in this work with the medicine. The goal of my practice as a therapist is to join three aspects to the healing process, plant medicines - psychotherapy - Meditation. Everything with a embodiment approach and to build up the container in order to open up to deep feeling and heal past trauma.

Also I'm thinking in add some journal, daily meditation practice, daily support if its needed among other things.

I want to share this with you and maybe have some feedback about the tools that helps you more when you microcode with healing propose. Any tip of insight would be much appreciated.

Im not a English speaker so sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes :)

much love

I am an outpatient session therapist. I have an active Day Treatment center that I work at and have about 30-40 clients who come on a regular basis with severe mental health issues. Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Mood Disorder, Depression, and PTSD are the main diagnoses, along with a variety of Substance Abuse issues . All of my clients subside on disability benefits, so topics surrounding poverty are also highly relevant. I've had great success with some films that I use routinely to encourage conversation. Group session last approximately 45 minutes, so we will typically watch 30 minutes of the film and process for the last 15. I'm offering here some great films that I've had great success with. These movies have themes that can help clients process challenges they face in their lives and see characters that they can identify and empathize with. I'm listing the movies and the therapy topic that each one can provide an excellent lesson for clients. The following is a short list of films that are a little off the radar that are not the usual suspects ('28 Days' is a great one, but my office has used this one many many times). Please use this thread as a chance offer your own lists of movies to use in a therapeutic environment!

Whiplash (2014) - Anger Management

Half Nelson (2006) - Substance Abuse (crack), Poverty, Divorce

Dead Man Walking (1994) - Forgiveness, Morality, PTSD, Grief

My Name is Bill W. (1989) - Alcoholism, Forgiveness, Grief, Alcoholics Anonymous

Owning Mahowny (2003) - Gambling, Addictive Behaviors, Honesty, Impulse Control

Clean & Sober (1989) - Drug & Alcohol Addiction, Drug Treatment, AA

Down to the Bone (2004) - Cocaine Abuse, Treatment, Poverty

The Color Purple (1985) - African American focused, Resiliency, Sexual Abuse PTSD, Poverty, Alcoholism

I am planning to take an on line improv for psychotherapy class in a few weeks. Anyone taken a course on this? Provided improv psychotherapy? what were your experiences? Not including DBT skills, I was on a DBT team for 13 years.

Hello! I am a therapist at Sage Institute in Oakland. I am inviting all ketamine clients who are seeking treatment for depression to consider joining a group that I will be co-facilitating. The group will start in January (or as soon as we have 8 clients) and will run for 8 weeks. The groups are $20 and will be focused on depression support. Clients will learn skills that will help them extend/ retain any mood improvements they are gaining with ketamine. All participants must have started treatment before the group begins. You must be working with a prescriber in California. You can learn more about this group here: https://tinyurl.com/SageDepressionSupport. Thank you for reading!

I was in a group therapy with a well respected elderly therapist in his late sixties or early seventies. We had a new member who said he was in school for social work and wanted to try group therapy after working 1:1 with our group therapist. Following week he said he wouldn’t want to learn what we are learning in the group because that is not how he and his friends talk to each other and he will not be staying. The group therapist told him that he is making himself different from all other group members who are in it for self improvement, while he is there to just observe to help him with his own job in social work and not participate in group truly like everybody else. Then he asked if he makes himself different when being around people outside of group. Then the group members started attacking him for coming to group as a professional observer without actually meaning to participate and the group therapist nodded in approval. Then the guy quietly quit.

I stayed in group for four years and and it’s been five years since I quit. I have hurt my family by applying what I learned in group. I have hurt them so much that they resent me now. I’m not sure how to move forward as I am changed person post group. I keep reacting to people in a certain way I learned in group and I cannot stop.

I'm attending group therapy every week but due to COVID-19 it wouldn't be sensible to put 6 people from all over the place into a room for 90 minutes. My therapist now proposed to use zoom.us as video conferencing tool to continue group therapy until the crisis is over.

The tool seems to be widely used by businesses and universities. However I'm a bit wary since people talk about very private things in these sessions. The recent year or so I have been more conscious about privacy on the internet and I just feel like using a tool like this might put the patients privacy at risk.

I'm not trying to defend Zoom but wonder how businesses and universities use it without being concerned. Is my therapist that negligent about privacy? Am I paranoid?

Zoom's Privacy Policy is pretty big and tons of data is being collected. As long as a meeting isn't recorded via "cloud recording" feature, data of video conferences isn't collected though:

>Customer Content is information provided by the customer to Zoom through the usage of the service. Customer Content includes the content contained in cloud recordings, and instant messages, files, whiteboards, and shared while using the service. Customer Content does not refer to data generated by Zoom’s network and systems (i.e., data that Zoom creates because the customer is using the system (e.g., meeting routing information and other meeting metadata).

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>More about meeting recordings
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>If you participate in a Recorded Meeting or you subscribe to Zoom cloud recording services, we collect information from you in connection with and through such Recordings. This information may include Personal Data. Meeting hosts are responsible for notifying you if they are recording a meeting, and you will generally hear a notice or see an on-screen notification when recording is in progress.

What do you guys think? Personally, I won't attend. Even if Zoom doesn't collect any data from video conferences, anyone could record those meetings via OBS Studio anyway.

But for patients that don't want to forgo therapy, should I share my concerns with the therapist and the patients?

edit: I've looked at alternatives on privacytools.io and Linphone looks kind of promising. Does anyone have experience with it? The Privacy Policy looks very tame compared to Zoom's.

Hi all! Anyone have any recommendations for books about attachment theory and trauma related to working with youth 0-3?

So I'm a Peer Support Specialist who runs a lot of groups at work. I've only been doing it for a couple of months, and this book was recommended to me by my therapist. But with the way therapy works I'd rather discuss my problems than this book in particular. However, I'm still trying to understand it, so I'd really like someone willing to answer some of the questions I have since I'm new to all this. I'd prefer to do it over messages. If anyone is down for teaching a bit to a newer PSS I'd be appreciative.

At Pasadena Villa Outpatient Center-Raleigh, we address many symptoms related to mental health disorders. Our treatment program includes psychoeducation and skills building, process groups, expressive art therapy, therapeutic yoga, psychodrama, and recently somatic psychotherapy. https://www.pasadenavilla.com/2019/01/18/somatic-psychotherapy-groups-at-pasadena-villa-outpatient-center-raleigh/

I'm a second year psychiatric nurse practitioner student and have worked as a licensed clinical professional counselor and nurse in mental health for the past 10 years. I knew that I wouldn't be able to practice much group therapy in my new role but I'm wondering if there are any psychiatrists practicing group therapy or at least prescribing group therapy for patients?

>How was yesterday?

"Up and down, more up than down."

>Oh, well that's good!

"No it isn't."

Seriously, it's like they forgot where they are.

doi: 10.1037/14186-000

http://psycnet.apa.org/PsycBOOKS/toc/14186

I 'd be grateful if anyone could help with this one