Psychoeducation

Yalom, Irvin D. and Lescz, Molyn collaborated and wrote a book titled, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, fifth edition, 2005. Various counseling programs use this book as a guideline on how to conduct effective therapeutic group sessions. In chapter 2, the authors express the importance of interpersonal learning and the impact it has on group therapy. Interpersonal learning originates “when interpersonal relationships exist that require corrective emotional experiences in order…

psychotherapy takes place with a licensed and trained mental health care professional and a patient meeting one on one or with other patients in a group setting.”(Psychotherapy, Np) Some of the psychotherapy treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoeducation, family focused therapy and interpersonal and social rhythm therapy. Those are some of the treatments, for one with bipolar…

Bob is a 23 year old male client presenting to therapy for complaints around anger control, socializing and an inability to focus. As Bob is a student, one of the complaints that most concerns him is his inability to study and perform in school. Bob comes from a family of upper middle class family of scholars but only one member of the family presenting with psychotic illness but is still highly functional. Bob has grown up in a nuclear family with one sister. Growing up Bob was described as a…

groups with well-organized and structured activities and exercises, help increase the self-worth of participants. Based on Yalom’s research on therapeutic factors, these groups provide information, socializing techniques, hope, and modeling. Psychoeducation groups will benefit adolescents by utilizing educational methods to acquire information and develop related meaning and skills. Lefley (2009) has found that psychoeducational groups help members who have serious mental illnesses “combat…

Two studies Hartinger-Saunders, Trouteaud, and Johnson, (2015) and Hartinger-Saunders and Trouteaud (2015) used the same methodology and participant pool to determine two different hypothesis. The first study, Hartinger-Saunders et al. (2015) looked to determine if there was a connection between post adoption services and child and parent outcomes, as well as overall gratification of adoption. The subsequent study, Hartinger-Saunders and Trouteaud (2015) examined the need and service use of…

negative contributing factors that could be triggers for Devon’s anger. Working with the family to identify triggers that cause Devon’s anger will provide Devon with the support he needs to develop healthy and effective anger management skills. Psychoeducation will train the parents to provide Devon with support and supervision that encourages and reinforces positive behaviors and to ignore and/or discourage negative behaviors, (Sadock et al., 2015). The implementation of anger management…

Part 1: Little Emotional Albert In the case study of Little Albert, the researchers were exploring where one’s emotions come from. During the 1920’s, there was a rise in behaviorism, which was the complete opposite of psychoanalytical. Sigmund Freud had hypothesized that humans were motivated by unconscious instincts and repressed conflicts from our childhood. However, behaviorists, such as Watson, strongly believed that behavior was the result of learning. Therefore, Watson that if a stimulus…

CLIENT NAME M CASE # 1 THERAPIST NAME & CREDENTIALS Pifer, T. MHC Intern DATE 1/26/18 LENGTH OF SERVICE 28 days TYPE OF CONTACT: individual and group NO. IN GROUP 9-12 INTAKE ASSESSMENT / ADMISSION NOTE IDENTIFYING INFORMATION: M is a 68-year-old Caucasian married male veteran. He is retired and currently resides with his wife (RN) who is still employed. REASON FOR REFERRAL: M seeks help voluntarily for alcohol dependency,…

therapy is increasingly recommended as an essential component of illness management. Evidence-based psychotherapies for bipolar disorder include cognitive-behavioral therapy, family-focused treatment, interpersonal and social rhythm therapy, and psychoeducation (Geller & Goldberg, 2007). I will consider interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (IPSRT) as the treatment of choice for bipolar disorder, because it can be conducted in both inpatient or outpatient setting, but it is most often used for…

still no evidence-based treatment model for clinicians to use with children with GD (Heylens, Verroken, De Cock, T’Sjoean, De Cuypere, 2014; Zucker, 2008). Therapeutic and treatment options currently incorporate any combination of psychotherapy, psychoeducation, behavior modification, parent-centered and peer-centered therapy, puberty suspension, cross-sex hormone therapy, and gender…