Group Therapy Activities

Reference: Freetips (2011, Feb.23). Group Therapy Article Articlesbase.com. Retrieved on Feb 28, 2011 from "http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/group-therapy-activities-4293674.html".

Summary:

This article discusses how the group therapy helps many people who losses his confidence by many problems such depression and physiological issue. Group therapy uses physiological treatment that lets the patients express their feeling with people who has same problems to coup their weakness. In group therapy they use ice break to make comfortable atmosphere, and to know each other. Sometimes they let the patients to use animal’s sound that can help them to enhance their strength. Trust and relations activates help patients to improve their problems with trust other people. They use some games to build good relation with other.

Also, group therapy increases self awareness. They let the patients write their fears in papers, and they let other patients to read it and come up with some solutions. This kind of games gives the patients a lot of bower to face their fears and solve it. Moreover, one of the best ways that make the patients release stress, and express their feeling is recreation therapy. In recreation therapy activities they ask the patients to dance, play and listening to music

Reaction:

The author discussed group therapy to motivate patients who have some physiological problems. In fact, group therapy motivates patients to improve their confidence. I agree with author that the group is very helpful. A lot of rehab centers use it in order to treat the patients who have depression, or fears. In the group therapy thy use the break ice technique to make the place comfortable. After that they let the patients use animal’s sound in order to express their character. Moreover, the group therapy helps these patients to learn how they trust other people, and how they make a new relations and having a new friend. In addition, some patients have problems with self steam which affect their live and their creativity; however, the group therapy enhances self awareness by writing their fears in the paper and let other patients. I believe that this kind of treatment is very helpful. Actually, I used to use the group therapy with my patients. It was very helpful.  We were gathering in the morning and drinking coffee, and we took about their experience when they got disable. They express their feeling and talk on by one that make them feel good, some of them success in their life. These people motivate other patients to success. Recreation therapy use wide range of activities to treat their weakness. I advice people who physical or physiological problem to try recreation therapy.