Latest / Professor Peterson’s Psychology Classroom / Unlocking Group Therapy: Psychoeducation, Treatment, and Process Groups

Transcript

Unlocking Group Therapy: Psychoeducation, Treatment, and Process Groups · Professor Peterson’s Psychology Classroom

• 0:00
  Welcome to this edition of Psychology Explained by
• 0:04
  Dr. Curtis Peterson, who is trying to bring psychology alive
• 0:08
  for us all. We're gonna go over the 3 types
• 0:12
  of clinical group processes, one starting
• 0:17
  with psychoeducational support.
• 0:20
  This group is commonly given when a
• 0:24
  person is either newly diagnosed with a disorder
• 0:28
  or or is coming in, as I said,
• 0:32
  with trauma recovery.
• 0:35
  It's commonly used with survivors or individuals
• 0:39
  going through treatment for a cancer
• 0:44
  or bereavement of that type.
• 0:49
  And then the second one is the actual treatment group.
• 0:54
  This is where we're treating specific symptoms relapse
• 1:00
  prevention,
• 1:02
  or trauma that a person is going through.
• 1:06
  And then the process group, which is that group that is meant
• 1:10
  for individuals who have gone through the treatment, gone through
• 1:14
  the psychoeducational, and now they're gonna
• 1:17
  process those deep-seated emotional,
• 1:21
  psychological issues they've gone through.
• 1:26
  The way this is going to be presented is in
• 1:30
  the perfect world. In the perfect
• 1:33
  world, someone goes through psychoeducational groups,
• 1:37
  that support system, and then they go through treatment
• 1:42
  managing symptoms,
• 1:45
  and then they go through the process group where they
• 1:49
  deeply process what they've gone through.
• 1:52
  I want to keep everyone in mind,
• 1:56
  and I'm not denying this in any way, that in
• 2:00
  reality these things can happen in congruency.
• 2:03
  So I'm going to use the inpatient
• 2:08
  treatment for substance use to kind of explain this.
• 2:13
  An insurance company may pay for 2 weeks,
• 2:16
  they may pay for the complete 30 days of
• 2:20
  inpatient treatment. It's very inconsistent between
• 2:25
  insurances. So this forces inpatient
• 2:30
  treatment facilities to combine this
• 2:34
  process. So someone may be going through a
• 2:38
  psychoeducational about substance abuse,
• 2:42
  they also may be in a treatment group,
• 2:46
  doing relapse prevention, those kinds of things.
• 2:50
  But they also may be doing a process group at the same
• 2:54
  time. And even on the outpatient
• 2:58
  level, we can kind of see this. But what
• 3:02
  I want to present here,
• 3:06
  because this is the place
• 3:10
  to talk about these things, is what would be best practice.
• 3:15
  Best practice is psychoeducational treatment
• 3:20
  and then process. Okay,
• 3:24
  so I just want to kind of delineate these
• 3:28
  2 models. One is based in reality,
• 3:32
  the other one is the ideal sequential progression.
• 3:39
  Okay, and so with that in mind, let me go
• 3:43
  up here again.
• 3:47
  Thank you for joining us for this Psychology Explained.
• 3:51
  I hope you'll join us in later episodes where we can— we'll continue
• 3:55
  to investigate the human mind and psychology.