Posted: October 9th, 2022

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Group Therapy for Addiction

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Group Therapy for Addiction

Task: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Group Therapy for Addiction
When deciding on a psychotherapeutic strategy for a shopper, you need to think about the distinctive wants and traits of that individual shopper. The identical is true when deciding on a psychotherapeutic strategy for teams. Not each strategy is suitable for each group, and the group’s distinctive wants and traits should be thought-about. For this Task, you look at psychotherapeutic approaches to group remedy for dependancy.

Studying Goals
College students will:
• Consider psychotherapeutic approaches to group remedy for dependancy

To arrange:
• Assessment this week’s Studying Sources and replicate on the insights they supply on group remedy for dependancy.
• View the media, Levy Household: Classes 1-7, and think about the psychotherapeutic approaches getting used.

The Task
In a 2- to Three-page paper, tackle the next:
• Establish the psychotherapeutic strategy that the group facilitator is utilizing and clarify why she could be utilizing this strategy.
• Decide whether or not or not you’ll use the identical psychotherapeutic strategy in case you have been the counselor facilitating this group and justify your choice.
• Establish an alternate strategy to group remedy for dependancy and clarify why it’s an acceptable choice.
• Help your place with evidence-based literature.

All references require creditable sources, nothing lower than 5 years. References require doi or http. Please add conclusion. APA wants to be seventh Version.

Laureate Training (Producer). (2013d). Levy household: Classes 1-7 [Video file]. Baltimore, MD; Writer.

Levy Household Episode 1 Program Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING]
FEMALE SPEAKER: You are not dressed? You are going to be late for work.
MALE SPEAKER: I am not going to work. I am sick.
FEMALE SPEAKER: After all, you are sick. You are hungover. I do not need the boys to see you want this. Return to mattress.
MALE SPEAKER: See me like what? I advised you, I am sick.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, what do you name it when somebody is sick nearly each morning, as a result of they drink each evening whereas they sit in the dead of night watching TV?
MALE SPEAKER: You calling me a drunk?
FEMALE SPEAKER: What do you name it?
MALE SPEAKER: I name it, depart me the hell alone.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Child, you want to cease this. It is tearing us up. The consuming, the anger– you are depressed.
MALE SPEAKER: You mentioned, for higher or worse.
FEMALE SPEAKER: My vows do not cowl this. You have been by no means like this earlier than. You’ve got modified. I need us again, the best way we used to be.
MALE SPEAKER: That method is useless. It died after I went to Iraq.

Levy Household Episode 2 Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: I need to thanks for getting me this Levy case. I believe it is so fascinating. Simply cannot wait to meet with the shopper.
MALE SPEAKER: What do you discover fascinating about it?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, he is simply 31. Normally the vets I work with are older. If they’ve PTSD, it is from traumas a very long time in the past. However Jake, that is all fairly new to him. He simply left Iraq a 12 months in the past. You recognize, I used to be considering he’d be excellent for a kind of newer therapy choices, artwork remedy, meditation, yoga, one thing like that.
MALE SPEAKER: Why?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, I have been dying to attempt considered one of them. I’ve learn a variety of good issues. Why? What are you considering?
MALE SPEAKER: I am considering you need to actually give it some thought some extra. Take into consideration your priorities. It is a good suggestion to be open-minded about therapy choices, however the wants of the shopper have to come first, not just a few therapy that you simply or I could be enthusiastic about.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I imply, I wasn’t saying it like that. I all the time consider my shoppers first. MALE SPEAKER: OK. However you talked about meditation, yoga, artwork remedy. Have you ever seen any analysis or knowledge that measures how efficient they’re in therapy?
FEMALE SPEAKER: No.
MALE SPEAKER: Neither have I. There could also be good analysis on the market, and possibly one or two of the therapies that you simply talked about could be actually good concepts. I simply need to level out that you need to meet your shopper first, meet Jake earlier than you make any selections about how to tackle his points. Make sense?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Yeah.

Levy Household Episode Three Program Transcript
JAKE LEVY: We might be out on recon in our Humvees, and it could get so sizzling. We used to put our water bottles in moist socks and dangle them proper exterior the window simply so the water would cool off of a bit, and possibly then you could possibly drink it. Man, it was cramped in there. You would be drenched, nowhere to breathe. It is like using round in an oven. And also you’d have your helmet on you, 100 kilos of drugs and ammo. I swear, generally I really feel prefer it’s nonetheless on me, prefer it’s all nonetheless strapped on me.
FEMALE SPEAKER: What number of excursions did you do in Iraq?
JAKE LEVY: Three. After that final recon, I just– There have been 26 of us. 5 marines within the Humvee I used to be in. I bear in mind I used to be carrying my evening imaginative and prescient goggles. We handed via a village and every part was inexperienced, like I used to be in a dream or beneath water. After which there was a flash, shiny gentle simply blinded me. There was this explosion. I am unable to– I am unable to—
FEMALE SPEAKER: It is OK, Jake. Take it straightforward. I perceive that is tough. There’s one thing I’d like to attempt with you. It is known as publicity remedy, and it is a therapy that is used loads with battle veterans, particularly these battling nervousness and PTSD.
JAKE LEVY: Publicity remedy?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Sure. It is to Help somebody like your self to confront your emotions and anxieties a few traumatic state of affairs that you’ve got skilled. It is a– It is meant to Help you to get extra management of your ideas, to make sense of what is occurred, and to not be so afraid of your reminiscences.
JAKE LEVY: Put that in a bottle and I am going to purchase 10 instances of it.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, one a part of it’s studying to management your respiratory. And while you apply that, you possibly can study to handle your nervousness, to get extra management of it, not let it management you, to defend your self. Would you like to attempt it?
JAKE LEVY: Proper now?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Positive.
JAKE LEVY: Why not?
Levy Household Episode Three
FEMALE SPEAKER: OK. Nicely, I do know this sounds loopy, however lots of people do not breathe correctly. And it actually comes from dangerous habits. After they inhale and exhale, all the trouble is right here of their chest and shoulders. And the issue with that’s you get a extremely quick, shallow breath. And that actually will increase the stress and nervousness in your physique. As a substitute, a extra pure breath ought to all the time contain your diaphragm, proper right here in your stomach. If you breath in, your stomach ought to broaden. And while you breath out, your stomach ought to fall. OK?
JAKE LEVY: OK.
FEMALE SPEAKER: So, let’s apply. Shut your eyes. Now, I need you place one hand in your stomach and the opposite throughout your chest. Good. Good. Now, I simply need you to take a couple of breaths, similar to regular. What are you feeling?
JAKE LEVY: I really feel my chest transferring up and down. However my stomach, nothing.
FEMALE SPEAKER: OK. So that is what I used to be simply speaking about. That is OK. Let’s do this. I need you are taking a breath. And this time, I solely need you to permit your stomach to expend while you breathe in and to fall while you breathe out. OK, let’s attempt it. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. You feeling higher? Extra relaxed?
JAKE LEVY: Sure.
FEMALE SPEAKER: And the extra you apply it the simpler it’s going to turn out to be. So while you discover that stress and nervousness approaching, simply do your respiratory. You may hold your self from getting swept by all these dangerous ideas. OK?
JAKE LEVY: Sure. Thanks.
FEMALE SPEAKER: So, would you like to attempt to return to what you have been telling me about earlier than?
JAKE LEVY: I can attempt. It was evening. We have been out on recon. It was my third tour in Iraq.

Levy Household Episode four Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: So would you like to attempt to return to what you are telling me earlier than? LEVY: I can attempt. It was evening. We have been out on patrol. I bear in mind it was so sizzling packed in our automobile. All of a sudden there was an explosion. We obtained tossed right into a ditch. And by some means I made it out, and I may see it was the Humvee behind us. It is entire entrance finish was gone. It had hit a roadside bomb. Our automobile had simply pushed previous it, simply mis triggering it. However not them. They did not make it.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Bear in mind how we practiced. Sluggish your respiratory down. Inhale and exhale out of your stomach.
LEVY: Thanks.
FEMALE SPEAKER: And simply take your time. Every time you might be prepared.
LEVY: So the bomb went off. I managed to get out. I had my evening imaginative and prescient goggles on. And I may see the Humvee, the one which obtained hit. It is entire entrance finish was gone. And there is this crater within the street. And inside it I may see– I may see Kurt’s– our platoon Sergeant, he was mendacity there every part under his waist was gone, blown off. And he was screaming. Screaming like nothing you’d ever heard. After which he was taking a look at me. And he was screaming for me to kill him. To cease his struggling. He was yelling, please. Please. And somebody tried placing tourniquets on him. However the floor simply stored getting darker along with his blood. And I used to be staring into his face. I had my rifle skilled on him. I used to be going to do it. You recognize. He was begging me to. I may really feel my finger on the set off. And I stored wanting into his face. After which I did not have to do nothing. As a result of the screaming had stopped. He’d bled out. Died proper there. And all I may suppose was I might let him down. His final request, and I could not do it. I could not put a bullet in him so he may die quick not sluggish.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I can see and listen to how painful it’s for you to relive this story. Thanks for sharing it. Do you suppose this incident is behind among the signs you’ve got been telling me about?
LEVY: After I go to sleep at evening, I shut my eyes, and I see Kurt’s there watching me. So I do not sleep too good. That is why I began consuming. It is the one method I can overlook about that evening. So I drink an excessive amount of. At the very least that is what my spouse yells at me. We’re not doing too effectively today. I am not precisely the lifetime of the get together. I left Iraq 10 months in the past. However Iraq by no means left me. I am afraid it is by no means going to depart me alone.

Levy Household Episode 5 Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: It was such an intense story. I simply stored seeing issues the best way he did, you already know. The bizarre inexperienced of his night-vision goggles, his sergeant screaming for Jake to kill him. I simply hold seeing all of it in my head. [MUSIC PLAYING]
MALE SPEAKER: Why, do you suppose?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Why what?
MALE SPEAKER: Why do you suppose you retain desirous about this story, this explicit case? FEMALE SPEAKER: I do not know, possibly as a result of it is so vivid. You recognize, I went dwelling final evening, turned on the TV to attempt to get my thoughts off it. And a business for the Marines got here on, and there was throughout again– the explosion, the screams, the person dying. Such a nightmare to reside with, and he is obtained a child on they method.
MALE SPEAKER: May that be it, the newborn?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Perhaps. That is fascinating you say that. I imply, the opposite vets I work with are older, they usually have grown children. However Jake is completely different. I simply hold picturing him with a new child. And I assume it scares me. I ponder if he’ll have the ability to cope with it.

Levy Household Episode 6 Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: I do know three of you probably did excursions of responsibility in Iraq, and the others in Afghanistan. So I simply wished to observe up on that, speak about the way you’re adjusting. [MUSIC PLAYING]
MALE SPEAKER 1: You say modify to, however there is not any adjustment. You are simply thrown again into your life such as you’re supposed to decide up the place you left off, however that is a joke. Two years in the past, I used to be dug in, pinned down by 50 Cal sniper fireplace, simply praying the chopper would get me out alive. Now, the toughest a part of my day is standing within the grocery retailer attempting to determine if I need yellow or brown mustard with my sizzling canine.
JAKE: Nah, two six packs or a case.
FEMALE SPEAKER: You discover that you simply drink greater than you used to?
JAKE: Why not ask him if he finds he is consuming extra sizzling canine than he used to?
BILL: You recognize why?
JAKE: Why is that? Oh nice, Buddha.
BILL: As a result of I have been the place you might be. You speak about booze prefer it’s some joke, however no person’s laughing. You may’t get adjusted to something while you’re attempting to get loaded.
JAKE: I assume you will not be becoming a member of me for a drink on the bar later. I used to be going to purchase.
FEMALE SPEAKER: No, that is a very good level, Invoice. Typically we do issues to keep away from coping with disagreeable emotions, like adjusting to life again at dwelling.
JAKE: What are you aware about it? Give me a break. Again off, or I am going to make you. BILL: I drink an excessive amount of too. However I’ve had sufficient of you mouthing off.
JAKE: My spouse’s had sufficient of me too. She’s the rationale I am right here. We by no means used to battle. I by no means used to drink a lot, however now I am unable to cease myself from doing both.
FEMALE SPEAKER: So why do you drink an excessive amount of?
Levy Household Episode 6
BILL: It is the one method I can shut it out, pictures of what I noticed over there, horrible issues that nobody ought to ever have to see. I get up some nights and I hear mortar rounds coming in. And I attain for my helmet and my weapon, however they are not there. So I freak out. After which I see fairly curtains. TV’S on. After which I bear in mind I am at dwelling. I notice I am not going to get blown up in spite of everything.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Thanks for sharing, Jake. You make a very good level. It may possibly appear loads simpler to self medicate slightly than face the fears, the dangerous reminiscences that we’ve. So what do you suppose? What are another issues, possibly, you do to keep away from the problem to being a civilian once more?
Levy Household Episode 7 Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: How did you discover out?
MALE SPEAKER: There is a man who served in our platoon. He did not name. Wrote an electronic mail. He mentioned it could hassle him an excessive amount of if he talked about it. Sorry to be the one who tells you that Eric dedicated suicide final evening. The final time I noticed him, he mentioned he was adjusting to civilian life fairly effectively. His girlfriend advised me it wasn’t true. She mentioned he advised everybody he was doing superb. However the nightmares stored after him even when he wasn’t sleeping. It simply tore him up. I assume he determined he’d had sufficient. He ended it with a service revolver. Marine to the tip.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I am sorry, Jake.
MALE SPEAKER: Thanks. You recognize, I spend nearly each evening in entrance of the TV, consuming till I am unable to bear in mind the rest. However I learn that electronic mail final evening, and I did not drink a drop. I simply stored desirous about Eric. You recognize we went via Parris Island collectively? FEMALE SPEAKER: I did not know that.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah. I did not activate the TV, both. I went straight to the pc. And earlier than I knew it, I used to be studying about veterans and suicide. They are saying about 22 veterans commit suicide each day, 22. That is like one each hour. Makes it sound like we’re time bombs. Makes you marvel which considered one of us goes to go off subsequent.
FEMALE SPEAKER: You sound glad that you simply did not drink final evening.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah. I have been attempting to give up for my spouse. However that email– you already know what else I learn on-line? I checked throughout with the VA, but it surely does not appear like they do something to Help forestall suicide. I imply, they provide Help in case you ask for it, however no prevention. Who’s going to ask for Help, proper? They practice you to be stronger than everybody else, to endure. Asking for Helpance is simply not one thing most males do.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Do you want Help, Jake?
MALE SPEAKER: I want loads, however not like that. I am not prepared to take a look at but. I obtained a child on the best way.
Levy Household Episode 7 I discovered one thing else. I used to be studying about this veteran who dedicated suicide in one other state. And so they began this program in his reminiscence that brings different vets collectively to Help one another.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Peer counseling?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, that is it. And I spent the entire remainder of the evening considering, why do not we’ve one thing like that? We needs to be reaching out to all vets, not simply those that are already getting psychological well being companies. I might even volunteer to get one thing like that going. FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, that is an ideal thought. However we would want to discover the cash for a program like that. I imply, our finances is maxed out. We might have to foyer the state legislature for the funding.
MALE SPEAKER: Nicely, I am going to do it. I am going to write the letter. I need to attempt.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Nicely, OK.
MALE SPEAKER: I am unable to let Eric go with out doing one thing for him. For me, too.

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Group Therapy for Addiction
Introduction
The Levy household presents with a number of points that stem from alcohol dependancy and post-traumatic dysfunction. The husband doesn’t notice that his alcohol dependancy is inflicting important household issues. The most effective psychotherapeutic strategy is counseling remedy because it includes listening to the shoppers to establish the dynamics affecting them and the group or household (Breuninger et al., 2020). The listening tactic is important because it helps the counselor to uncover that Levy is a veteran who skilled battle in Iraq. The most effective various is psychodrama since it’s efficient in serving to folks to perceive themselves and their historical past. The aim of the paper is to look at the psychotherapeutic approaches to group remedy for dependancy within the Levy household.
Psychotherapeutic Method
The group facilitator is utilizing a counseling remedy strategy to tackle the problems presenting within the Levy household. The technique includes listening to the shoppers to establish the dynamics affecting them and the group or household. It helps therapists advocate methods for dealing with the challenges and adapting new methods (Breuninger et al., 2020). The listening tactic is important because it helps the counselor to uncover that Levy is a veteran who skilled battle in Iraq. The expertise I traumatizing after his mates have been killed within the battle. He’s attempting to masks his ache by taking alcohol and medicines. He doesn’t notice that he has a significant downside that affects his household.
The remedy doesn’t encourage the abuse of alcohol and medicines or rebuke it. For example, Levy makes a joke that the therapist ought to put the remedy in a bottle and provides him to drink. The therapist doesn’t reply to the remark, which reveals he doesn’t encourage drug abuse. It helps the shopper transfer on and begin a brand new life (Breuninger et al., 2020). The remedy applies to Levy’s household points which might be inflicting battle.
Counseling remedy explores and understands the household dynamics important for therapy. The case research reveals that the spouse is anxious in regards to the husband. She is aware of that the conduct of the husband has modified considerably. Levy is anxious in regards to the state of affairs since he reveals feelings throughout remedy. It demonstrates that he’s nervous that his conduct impacts his household (Ghochani et al., 2020). The therapeutic strategy reveals that it is crucial to discover the strengths of shoppers. For example, the case research reveals that the spouse helps the husband to overcome the post-traumatic dysfunction, comparable to discovering various actions that may occupy the thoughts.
The spouse is anxious that the husband ought to change the present conduct since it could set a foul instance for the youngsters. The therapist’s deal with counseling remedy is to Help Levy’s spouse develop acceptable Help and communication (Ghochani et al., 2020). Counseling remedy is thus an efficient strategy that helps folks deal with their challenges.
I might use the identical remedy to deal with the Levy’s household case research. The therapeutic technique is efficient because it promotes communication between a therapist and a shopper. Throughout remedy, a counselor acts as a mediator to promote communication (Stone et al., 2017). It helps folks to categorical suppressed feelings. For example, the spouse is disillusioned with the conduct of the husband. The counseling classes can current a protected alternative to talk the frustrations to the shopper (Stone et al., 2017). Another excuse for utilizing the remedy because it improves the conceit of the shoppers. When shoppers really feel accepted, they contribute to fixing the issue. For example, the spouse can successfully Help the husband in overcoming the consuming behavior. Vanity improves when folks discover a possibility to talk, categorical feelings, and share concepts (Stone et al., 2017). Therapists can thus make the most of counseling remedy to generate options for the issues affecting numerous shoppers.
Various Method
The most effective various for Levy’s household is psychodrama. The strategy is efficient in serving to folks to perceive themselves and their historical past. It helps tackle trauma and enhance intimate relationships amongst people or households (Cruz et al., 2018). The approach includes role-playing and dramatization that helps folks to examine and acquire new insights. Psychodrama generates new info and helps folks to replicate on their previous conduct (Giacomucci, 2020). The strategy is efficient in Levy’s household since it’s going to contain re-enacting the scenes that trigger battle. For example, reenacting the scenes involving the spouse and husband may also help Levy to perceive the ache he’s inflicting on his household (Cruz et al., 2018). The revelation is important in motivating him to resolve his conduct that includes alcohol dependancy.
Conclusion
The Levy household is experiencing numerous challenges due to the husband’s alcoholism. The husband doesn’t notice that his alcohol dependancy is inflicting important household issues. Counseling remedy is the perfect strategy to cope with the problems within the household. I might use the identical strategy to tackle the a number of points the household is experiencing. The most effective various methodology of addressing the problems in Levy’s household is psychodrama. The strategy includes reenacting points and serving to shoppers to perceive their conduct and relationship with others. The approaches are efficient in serving to the Levy household, and the people overcome a number of points.

References
Breuninger, M. M., Grosso, J. A., Hunter, W., & Dolan, S. L. (2020). Therapy of alcohol use dysfunction: Integration of Alcoholics Nameless and cognitive behavioral remedy. Coaching and Training in Skilled Psychology, 14(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000265
Cruz, A., Gross sales, C., Alves, P., & Moita, G. (2018). The Core Methods of Morenian Psychodrama: A scientific Assessment of literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01263
Ghochani, M., Safarian Toosi, M. R., & Khoynezhad, G. R. (2020). Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Mixed Couple Therapy for on the Enchancment of Intimacy and PTSD. The American Journal of Household Therapy, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2020.1813657
Giacomucci, S. (2020). Addiction, traumatic loss, and guilt: A case research resolving grief via psychodrama and sociometric connections. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 67, 101627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2019.101627
Stone, D. A., Conteh, J. A., & Francis, J. D. (2017). Therapeutic elements and psychological ideas in alcoholics nameless. Journal of Counselor Follow, eight(2), 120-135. DOI: 10.22229/nav074629

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