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Group Counseling and Group Work In the Group Counseling course, we were asked to come up with a group proposal project in pairs. My partner and I decided to propose a group for Sexual Assault and Rape Education/ Support Group. A big emphasis on the group we designed is to provide an environment for Sexual Assault survivors in which they did not have to feel pressured to report to any form of authority (campus police, or city police). Doing this assignment was hard for me because I never realized how much time is actually spent preparing for a group. All the different areas that needed to be covered made designing the group stressful. This helped me learn that if I am designing a group or planning for a group to make sure I allow myself …show more content…
Finding something that I would like to do research on was difficult being that research is not something that I am interested in pursuing. Research is something that is important in our field, but I have come to realize that it is not something I enjoy doing and I am thankful for those who are willing to do research. Learning how childhood abuse can affect individuals as adults is something that has been interesting to me. Being that I had to come up with something to research I decided to go with something that is interesting to me, I decided to do research on the likelihood that adults who experienced childhood abuse will engage in intrafamily conflict or adulthood …show more content…
The goal of this assignment was to find an area in which we believe that there is a lack of mental health counselors and would benefit from having mental health support. I decided to go with hospitals, Kadlec Medical Regional Center specifically. The reason I decided hospitals would benefit from mental health counselors is because as a previous volunteer at a hospital I saw the lack of emotional support family member and patients received from staff. Another thing that led me to advocate for mental health counselors at hospitals was having the experience of being the family member of a patient who is in the ICU and meeting with doctors to tell you the prognosis and then leaving you without any emotional

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