Oasis Behavioral Health (OBH) is located in Chandler, Arizona. The hospital houses a residential treatment center (RTC) for adolescents age eleven through seventeen (Oasis Behavioral Health, n.d.). The adolescents have a dual-diagnosis and are experiencing emotional, behavioral, and/or substance abuse difficulties (Oasis Behavioral Health, n.d.). There are two separate units, one male and one female, that can accommodate a total of 37 individuals. Therapeutic services are provided based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (Oasis Behavioral Health, n.d.). The group I observed focused on the Living in Balance (LIB) program. It meets weekly on the RTC unit, which is a locked facility. Attendance to the group is required unless …show more content…
Rebecca is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), working towards her clinical license. She graduated from Arizona State University with her Master in Social Work and has been licensed for five years. Additionally, Rebecca has formal training in crisis intervention and substance use education. Rebecca has extensive experience working with at-risk adolescents. She has seven years of experience working with adolescents in social work and has worked for Oasis for little over two years. As a graduate student, she interned at OBH in the acute psychiatrist unit and Youth Development Institute (YDI). YDI is a residential treatment center for adolescents with emotional problems and/or behavioral disorders. Rebecca shared that she was employed by YDI after graduation and left the position for OBH approximately two years ago due to the stress of the …show more content…
According to Toseland (1984), “Social order and stability are prerequisites for the formation and maintenance of a cohesive group” (p.78). The group culture of respect and support as well as the established roles assisted in creating the cohesive group. However, certain personality differences and dynamics can negatively impact the group culture. For example, one of the older girls demonstrated dominance over the youngest girl of the group. The younger girl was submissive and shy. During one observation, the girls processed a disagreement over a joined project. The eldest girl would not allow the younger girl to help as she felt her lack of skill would mess up the project. The younger girl’s feelings were hurt and the eldest girl was steadfast in her position. Personality differences are inevitable and likely to be seen in all group settings. The dynamics and personality differences between individuals impact the overall group
The center combines a safe housing environment with structured educational programs that incorporate the philosophies of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is the original self help group founded on principles that provide support and encouragement for recovering alcoholics. New members are encouraged to work with a spon...
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These children had the worst histories I have seen in mental health nursing. The opportunity to work with this population was the most difficult and honorable thing I have done in my life. Part of my goal as a nurse practitioner will be to work with the underserved and difficult populations that others are not willing to work with. The next four years I spent floating around seven different units at CenterPointe Hospital. Some of the units include adult detox unit, geriatrics, acute adult, chemical dependency residential programs, and adolescent units. Child and adolescents are my passion but working with dual diagnosis, acute adults and geriatric/dementia populations gave me a well-rounded experience. I have also worked the last 3 years PRN as an eating disorder nurse. This vast experience working with every psychiatric population has taught me much about psychiatric disorders and provided me with balanced work history. In addition, I have worked as charge nurse of these units and gained leadership skills. I intent to use the experience and knowledge from my nursing career to help me assess, diagnose and treat, as a nurse
Rebecca Wilson LMSW, Masters of Social Work at New Mexico State University. Salary $36,000- $55,000. Job description: conducts counseling sessions with individuals and or families and facilitates therapy groups and helps organize child welfare training and
It is common for juveniles in need of rehabilitation to have multiple problems. Sometimes, the ...
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174). Shea and Jackson (2015) research goal was to elicit the Family Mosaic Project (FMP) youths’ thoughts and feelings of their experience with this type of intervention (pg. 175). The FMP is a program that refers troubled youth to the Occupational Therapy Training Program (OTTP) from clinicians that work in schools, in communities or in detention facilities who are practitioners of the client-centered occupation-based therapy (Shea, Jackson, 2015, pg.174). FMP focus on changing behaviors of youth between the ages of 11 and 18 who are socially disadvantaged, by providing services such as intensive case management (Shea, Jackson, 2015, pg. 174). OTTP is a community-based program within FMP, that offers social activities that are pleasurable and meaningful to occupy severely troubled kids who are at risk for foster care (Shea, Jackson, 2015, pg. 174). Furthermore, the sample consisted of five participants of the FMP program and the demographics were gender, age, ethnicity, level of education and length in OTTP (Shea, Jackson, 2015, pg. 175). Qualitative research method was used to gather and analyze the verbal data of the research design (Shea, Jackson, 2015, pg. 174). Five semi-structured interviews were
Leaders will often separate in-group and out-group members based on similarities of the group member and the leader. Other characteristics that can play into it are age, gender, or even a member’s personality. A member can be granted in-group status if the leader thinks the member is competent and is going above and beyond to perform the job functions. As mentioned the two groups that members can fall into are in-group and out-group. In-group members are those that share similarities with the leader. Those similarities can be personality, work ethic, common interests, or even alma maters. In-group members often go above and beyond their job description and the leader does more for these members. In-group members will have their opinions and work ideas looked at in higher regard than out-group members. In-group members typically have higher job satisfaction within the group and are less likely to experience turnover. In-group members are often promoted within the organization f...
Group dynamics relate to how each member reacts, behaves and communicates with others in a group and how certain patterns of interaction are formed (Prendiville, 2004). During the group process members adopt transitory or permanent roles where challenging or encouraging others can enhance work and help achieve goals and disruptive roles such as blocking, criticising or sabotaging the group can prove damaging (Prendiville, 2004) and therefore it is essential the facilitator recognises the roles within the group to help enrich the process.
The way I would explain the term of exceptionalities is that of individuals who have a medical diagnosis of a disability that can affect their cognitive, mental, physical and/or other abilities to learning or move in many ways that “normal” individuals can. In which case exceptionalities is present in all of us.
Interactions in small groups, are the result of the influence inputs, throughputs and outputs have on a group. In order to create the best output possible, small groups must be able to overcome challenges presented by diversity of group, structure and team traps. According to Tubbs (2012), influence and its multiple causations can be outlined by the “Tubbs Model of Small Group Interaction” (p. 16). One of the three sources for influence in the “Tubbs Model” is relevant background factors. These factors consist of: personality, gender, age, health, attitudes and values. Tubbs (2012), states its important to note, all behavior has context (p. 113), so by understanding the relevant background factors of a
Rosemont Center is located in Columbus, Ohio. It provides for the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being of troubled youth and their families. Rosemont is committed to helping children in need; it is dedicated to healing and renewing youths with a history of trouble and abuse. Rosemont provides the unconditional acceptance, treatment, counseling, education and hope that the youths urgently need to be more productive members of the community. Rosemont had two locations, Rosemont-Bay Saint Louis and Rosemont-Jackson (Swayne, Duncan & Ginter, 2008).
For the past three years, I have been an emergency room technician at Baton Rouge General Hospital. There, I assisted patients with activities of daily living, assist nurses and doctors with procedures, and assist with resuscitations. I also provided continuous observations for at-risk patients. Currently, I work for a non-profit organization as a community living supporter in the state of Texas. This program offers services to at-risk youth while collaborating with their families, agencies, service providers, and communities. I have the privilege of facilitating empowerment sessions with youth of various ages and mental
Each group converges its members into a homogenous unit that to some extent shares values, attitudes and opinions and this process is in itself natural and necessary for performance and function. This can be a source of problems if the groups have to interact with each other because they will inherently have different sets of values that can come into friction. Also, there can arise a number of issues if the group has to accept new members who have to accept groups values and way of performing and fit
The needs of each individual in a group are different. For example, one individual may be satisfied simply by accomplishing a task with no particular need for personal validation while another may need to be the focal point of the validation. In each group interaction people take on various roles; there’s a leader, a person of power, a person who’s the most knowledgeable, someone who has a more amenable disposition and those in the group who are more assertive than the other members. How each person views there role and the role of others is filtered through a personal lens that is developed from a history of experiences and habitual thinking. The combination of personal views and the meeting of personal needs mixed with varying factors involved in communication styles create a multitude of