How To Attend Group Therapy

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Recommended: Personal reflection on group therapy

I have been fortunate enough to be placed on units wherein students are allowed to attend group therapy, as long as the patients are comfortable with it. I have attended numerous but was not asked for my input on many of them, except one. I thought that this social worker really helped the patients understand that we, as nursing students, are also here for the patients and not just there to fulfill hours. I felt that in previous sessions, the patients felt that we were observing them as if they were circus animals and even had a patient scoff when I had a therapist say we were there to observe. When a fellow student and myself were allowed to participate and provide input, I felt that therapy as a whole was much more productive and the patients

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