Stress Management (Social Conversation Group)
Parents have a difficult time handling stress for several different reasons; one of these reasons is they have to not only be the child’s parent but they also have to be a caregiver, case manager, and advocate for their child. They face tough issues like dealing with medication, bullying, struggling to manage difficult behavior, finding the right school, and finding experienced sitters for their children. This often leads the parent(s) to leaving a paying job to focus on the care of their child more closely.
After attending this social conversation group my hope for the parents is to give them ideas on how to better handle stress and how to make it through a stressful situation easier. By attending …show more content…
Support and encourage one another. Parents should be able to attend this group and feel supported while talking about their struggles.
Goals for Stress Management Group
1. Learn to manage/lessen their stressors. Parents should be able to, with the learned information and techniques, make their day-to-day lives less stressful.
2. Better cope with any stressful situation. The parents attending this group will be able to take the information learned and apply it to their lives.
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Each parent will have an opportunity to share as much or as little information about themselves, their lives, or their children as they would like to. This group is an informal group which allows each parent to talk about any subject they would like to talk about as long as it is a stress or stress management related topic. Every parent in the group will have a chance to share, if they would like to, a problem or situation that may be causing them stress in their daily lives. After everyone that wants to share has had a turn to share, I will then ask the parents some questions such as “What do you believe is your major stressor that is present in your life right now?” And “Do you have any ideas on how you could remove/lessen the stressors that you have?”
I will then hand out a paper to all of the parents to look at throughout the group and to also take home with them. This list that I will be handing out is twenty things that every parent of children with special needs should hear. This list could be helpful to the parents attending the group session by giving them some topics to talk about. It also could be helpful during this group if a non-parent of children with special needs is present with one of the members, as support. The list is as
Parents have a difficult time handling stress for several different reasons; one of these reasons is they have to not only be the child’s parent but they also have to be a caregiver, case manager, and advocate for their child. They face tough issues like dealing with medication, bullying, struggling to manage difficult behavior, finding the right school, and finding experienced sitters for their children. This often leads the parent(s) to leaving a paying job to focus on the care of their child more closely.
After attending this social conversation group my hope for the parents is to give them ideas on how to better handle stress and how to make it through a stressful situation easier. By attending …show more content…
Support and encourage one another. Parents should be able to attend this group and feel supported while talking about their struggles.
Goals for Stress Management Group
1. Learn to manage/lessen their stressors. Parents should be able to, with the learned information and techniques, make their day-to-day lives less stressful.
2. Better cope with any stressful situation. The parents attending this group will be able to take the information learned and apply it to their lives.
Group …show more content…
Each parent will have an opportunity to share as much or as little information about themselves, their lives, or their children as they would like to. This group is an informal group which allows each parent to talk about any subject they would like to talk about as long as it is a stress or stress management related topic. Every parent in the group will have a chance to share, if they would like to, a problem or situation that may be causing them stress in their daily lives. After everyone that wants to share has had a turn to share, I will then ask the parents some questions such as “What do you believe is your major stressor that is present in your life right now?” And “Do you have any ideas on how you could remove/lessen the stressors that you have?”
I will then hand out a paper to all of the parents to look at throughout the group and to also take home with them. This list that I will be handing out is twenty things that every parent of children with special needs should hear. This list could be helpful to the parents attending the group session by giving them some topics to talk about. It also could be helpful during this group if a non-parent of children with special needs is present with one of the members, as support. The list is as