Alcoholics Anonymous Group Analysis

DSM Diagnosis: Include behaviors & symptoms consistent with diagnosis. 303.90 Alcohol Use Disorder, Sever; F.10.24 Alcohol Induced Depressive Disorder; Bipolar; Pancreatitis, severe; primary and social Background information: John Smith is a Caucasian male in his mid-forties residing Truman, AR. Pt reported he has an ongoing struggle with substance abuse addiction since the age of seventeen. Pt was admitted voluntarily to SBBH for suicidal ideation. Also, pt reports he has receive several therapeutic treatments.

Session One When selecting our groups I was approached by another student who wanted to join us. One of my weaknesses is that I struggle to say no; I found the situation uncomfortable as I was aware of the feelings of the rest of the group. I could see the benefits of having an additional member as according to Preston-Shoot (2007) smaller groups are more likely to split into one to one interactions rather than developing as a group.

Fabian Castaneda Mrs.Kehrmeyer Contemp. Comp April 25, 2015 The Problems With AA AA meetings are for people who are struggling with alcoholism which means they have an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency. I believe that these meetings are not helpful and in some cases cause harm the people who are trying to change and no longer alcoholics or drug addicts. These meetings do not have high success rates in fact they have very low rates.

Throughout my whole life, my father has been an alcoholic. There have been times when he has tried to quit, but it never lasted for more than a few months. His addiction has brought on stressful times for my family. Some days we did not know where he was or if he was coming home. Although my father’s addiction might not have made the best childhood, he did show me the kind of person I did not want to be.

AA Meeting Reflection Many people who have never had an addiction may not understand the difficulty of becoming better, and that is because we have never been in circumstances where our life depended upon a substance (Berry & Ramnath, 2013). However, for people who have had a substance addiction, the difficulty to becoming better is harder because they need to regain control over their thoughts and lives. According to the alcoholic anonymous recovery program, a twelve-step meeting is a very efficient program that helps people regain control over their thoughts and their lives. One vital part of this program is the twelve traditions and twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Although the overall goal of this meeting is for members to stay sober while

It looks very easy for audience to follow up and it lets audience know who is presenting; therefore, it is easy for audience to grade the group members. I will learn from their outline for my group present. About my group, we are going to work in group after class today to prepare for our presentation on Oct 24. Kiison will make the ABCX model for his movie, which is “The Big

We did interviews and research on how to get the groups to interact with each other. We came up with the solution of have more student events, so they could mingle and make friends. Describe a time when you worked in a small group. What was particularly good about that group?

The meeting was different than I expected. I expected a small group of people sitting in a circle and telling their stories and it was very different from that. It was an extremely positive place. There were people ranging in ages and people ranging on length of sobriety. Some people there have been sober for over 25 years and some people had less than a week

Over the summer I attended the four day Congress of Future Medical Leaders and it made me realize what I dreamed to become and achieve in life Before the school year of 2017 ended I came home and found a large black envelope on the entrance table, in gold lettering it read “Harvard”. I quickly rushed over to my mom and started frantically waving the sealed envelope in her face, she started yelling for me to open it. On the back was a thick wax seal with the Harvard emblem, I don 't think I ever opened something as carefully as I did then. Inside, there was a thick stack of papers, mom was eager to read them

In my experience of observing Alcoholics Anonymous group, it was a great experience. In my experience, I notice a lot of things in the Alcoholic Anonymous group. The first thing I notice while observing the group session is they have Alcoholics Anonymous bible that read a section every session. They read the same passage that discuss that how important it is to keep all information that is said in the group confidential. They were vey clear with that information.

There are different types of group structure which are “fixed member meeting, open ended, teenaged survivors of sexual abuse, residential groups as in group homes, and group in a school setting” (Shulman, 2014, p. 361-362). How does group composition and timing impact professional practice? Group composition and timing impact is very important in professional practices. Group composition and timing is important because if the group is too large everyone might not be able to share their opinions.

Robert left the hospital a changed man, not just because of the blue cast around his arm, but also because he had made a promise not just to us but to himself that he would not drink anymore. It has been 3 years since that accident and Robert has stayed sober and still attends his AA meetings until this day. Sharing his story with other people and telling them that alcohol doesn’t bring anything good to their lives and that they should change before it’s too late. Robert’s story is somewhat similar to Zumbi’s story because they were both in an accident and after that accident they both helped people. Zumbi lost both of his parents and was involved in a horrible accident at the landfill, but those horrible things were also a blessing in disguise.

At our first few meetings, team building was key. In an effort to overcome the initial shyness, we took the time to understand and get to know our fellow team members; in doing so, establishing a welcoming and encouraging environment for everyone to share their ideas whist too ensuring everyone felt appreciated. Getting the team to gel was essential for the team to get results. We met at regular intervals, usually weekly, to discuss and reassess our progress. However, finding the time to meet proved quite difficult, between everyone’s busy schedules and with the plenty of other assignments we all had going on simultaneously.

Group communication presentation was a liberating experience for me. Normally, I am a loner and a perfectionist who believes that I am the only one who can do the perfect research, come up with correct findings and make produce a perfect research paper. The group work, however, was full of people with different inputs and different skills. All these people had their own inputs on the subject matter and research was done separately but findings shared. The delegation of duties in the group made the work easier.

It will briefly discuss the feedback from my tutor and the group members. And finally the conclusion. Definition of group According to Berg, Fall, & Landre (2013, p 195) "Group work is a broad professional practice involving the application of knowledge and skill in group facilitation to assist an interdependent collection of people to reach their mutual goals which may be intra-personal, interpersonal, or work related" Planning In order to prepare for our group facilitation exercise, my colleague and I sat together for the first time in class to plan and discussed our understanding of what we thought was expected of us.