Working Adults Case Study

Today, most working adults are facing stress from time to time. Prolonged stress is harmful for working adults. It might cause them either mental or physical health problems. One of the problems that working adults faced is stress at workplace. As working adults, they also need to take care of family. In other words, they will need to manage both in one time. Bascially, work stress will decrease job satisfaction, increase complaints from customers, reduce productivity, poor concentration and lack of confidence. Hence, group counseling programs are effective ways to help working adults to reduce their stress. There are few groups counseling programs such as laugh out loud in group, organise stress management workshop, play with stress balls

It helps them to become more confidence, know what they want, have their own opinions and goals, able to make decisions and control their feelings after they had attended and completed overall counseling sessions. Group counseling is form when they have enough group members like six to eight of them. Through group counseling, group members exchange different experiences, explore issues with others and communicate with each other. Group development is needed to ensure group of people gather up to form a team. Stages of group development are such as formation a group, initial stage, transition stage, working stage, final stage and follow-up stage. All those stages of group development are important for them to understand where they stand and what are they going to do. Normal problems that faced by working adults are stress at work as well as they need to take care of their family. If working adults faced prolonged stress, it will affect their job satisfaction, lack of confidence, unable to concentrate and facing customers’ complaints. So, group counseling programs are able to help them to release tension. Some of the examples of group counseling programs are laugh out loud in group, organise stress management workshop, play with stress balls and “my problem solving story activitiy”. Basically, laugh out loud benefits them to control their emotional and how to face difficult situations. Organise stress management workshop is another examples of group counseling programs. The purpose of this program is to teach working adults ways to handle stress. Next, play with stress balls make them more focus and able to concentrate of what they do. Last but not least, “my problem solving story activity” is also best group counseling programs. From there, working adults will share their feelings and experiences together. In short, group counseling is important to give moral support, positive thought and encourage them to be tough when facing