Assignment: Analyzing Group Techniques

CASE STUDY: Group session for schizophrenic patients

Hi guys thanks for coming today my name is Brooke I'm one of the silicate errs here and this is Robin she's also a facilitator. I just want to go around and introduce yourselves again good start. P1: I'm sandy

Brooke: right okay well thanks for coming today guys so we're just going to quickly go over the agenda to start. we're going to introduce the group norms and then we're going to do a quick truck in talk about the homework from last week and then we're going to go into relaxation techniques. we're also going to have a guest speaker come in and then we're going to kind of talk about the homework we want you to do for next week okay. I'm just gonna go over the rules for group you guys are all familiar with them but just going to clean all things talked about group are two main confidential. there is to be no unhelpful terms or labels. this is pork group, so we want to work together in positive ways all members are to be respectful of each other. will be at least one break in each session and participants will do the best to attend each session and it's not or three to be late or anything, just call myself or Robin you guys have our number and your we're going to call you once a week.

I called you last Wednesday just to check in and see how things were going so that will continue for the next couple groups. okay we're going to move into the check-in. so funny, but everybody can just kind of tell me on a scale of one to ten how they're feeling today. ten being excellent one being you're not coming very good nature and if you want stir

P1: I feel like I'm four

P2: six

P3: five

Brooke: five okay. so we did some homework from last week's session we talked about coping skills I didn't find situations where you're feeling uncomfortable or negative in any way with your illness and addressing ways to cope with that so does someone want to start until it'sabout their issue and then what they use to cope affect and you want to start

P1: well I was depressed, smokes involved and did that really help in that situation I guess yeah

Brooke: what did you do for you did it calm you down yeah so you really needed something

P1: and that was that with the choice for me

Brooke: okay we're going to talk more about substance use and your medications later on but it was I think identified the situation they need to get out of and you used a coping strategy for that so thank you for sharing camera genetics

P2: okay so last week I had I didn't really want to leave my house it was cold out but I remember that we talked about how it's important talk to people and I looked out my window and I saw my neighbor up there and I decided to challenge myself and go and say hi and talk to him and when I was talking to him it was became really overwhelming for me and I kept thinking that he did he thought that I was that I was crazy you know the crazy lady just came out of her house kind of thing and so like I stopped and I took a couple deep breaths and but then I started thinking that he was looking at me funny you know he's thinking crazy again and so I had to make an excuse to go back inside the house but for when I was breathing I felt better

Brooke: I'm glad that you can identify that you're feeling anxious, and we used a coping skill the attraction what last week it could be you were able to do.

P2: when I breathe really deep it makes me feel like I'm petting my cat and I like this even kind of you know really breathing to petting your cat as and enjoy a lot to me or you yeah nice to meet you feel calm unless the cat wants to bite me but then maybe I will try breathing

Brooke: these are all self-soothing techniques right so you can have full control over this and also if you have someone around you they could do it with you because it's just calming for anybody we're going to do. so that's great guys we are going to have a 10-minute break and then we have a meditation specialist coming in today

ALL: I'm going to try meditation but it's a really good form of relaxation.

Brooke: so we've practices now in group so maybe throughout the week this week you can try incorporating the breathing exercise into your daily life maybe when you get a kind of a negative symptoms anxiety hallucination try the breathing technique and next week we'll come back.