Narrative Essay On Group Work

Wednesday, Today was a good day. Today I lead a twelve step group for recovering alcoholics. In this particular group I was instructed not to use names and to try and make sure that I am I talking to everyone at one time, what my supervisor wanted to make sure was that everyone had their confediality kept. I was warned that some counselors would speak to a individual person and the other group embers would feel like whatever the counselor was saying the member was guilty of. I walked into the small room and saw eight people sitting in a stagger circle formation waiting on me to arrive. I felt like a movie star or something. I sat down in the quiet and intense room to speak to the group members only to find out that they all were impatient …show more content…
I started talking, of course I beganed with a introduction because most of the group member did not know me. After my introduction, I went on and started talking about the effects of drugs and the cause that most people started using drugs and then I asked everyone to give a short introduction to everyone and I told them to only reveal what they wanted too. Honestly now that I am thinning about it I am sure all of the group members knew each other. I was the only one who did not know all of the group member, but its ok. After the introduction we watched a short movie about peer pressure. I thought that the movie was meant to target youth and not adults. However the adults did enjoy the video, they gave some feedback after the movie was over and then I ended the meeting. The duration of the meeting was about an hour long. I was nervous throughout the entire meeting, but I held my composer and pushed through it hopefully without showing my feeling. I thought it was a productive day, because I did something different and I was able put myself in a uncomfortable situation which promotes …show more content…
I spent most of my day on the telephone trying to contact organization to partner with us. One particular organization that I contacted was SAMs, my supervisor wanted me to asked for donation for the upcoming clinic. We just had a clinic last week and we are already preparing for a new one. I feel like all I ever do is work, something that I noticed today at my practicum is that the textbook and practicums are different. After reflecting on the text I notice tat it really targets one on one session and right now I am working in a macro setting. I was able to get a hold of SAM,s but they just refered me to someone else. Its just like everything things else in life. Whenever I ask for something from someone so how, some way the conversation always leads back to the internet. For example if I cll and ask a company what time do they lose, they may ask the question, but at the end they are going to say you can look at our website and all the information is there. Its like human direct communication doesn’t exist anymore. The end result of the SAMS profect ws that it was justa waste of my time. After wasteing about three hours of my time I conducted a therapy session with a client that was under te influence. I am not sure what drug, but I did end the session early because I wanted to model that it was innaproapite to be under the influence and be on the property. One of the case managers wanted to call the police, I stopped her and just asked the