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Sandra Monica Delgado
Feb 13 8:19amLast reply Feb 15 1:05pm
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Good morning:
My experience with groups has been always beneficial. As a matter of fact, I am a teacher for nurses and have been doing it for the last 8 years. I love being around people and I enjoyed being around my students providing them with information and learning from them as well. As a student I am part of a group as well. For this last group I became involved by having the same goals and ideas and but having something in common wanting to become a Psychiatric nurse Practitioner. As a group my role is very similar to the rest of the class. I am engaged in the class and with my classmates by the board weekly discussion by sharing ideas and giving them feedback of their work. The purpose of the group has not changed, we help each other like the first day because we have a common goal, to graduate and become an NP. Cultural issues may arise because in my class work, we have people from different cultures, from Latinos to Americans to African Americans. I am aware of cultural differences but as of now we never had an issue so far. My previous group experience like I mentioned while being an educator, I can say that this has influenced me to be a better student. I now understand the professor’s side and the student’s side and have a broad perspective on how to manage things.
Working on a group therapy can be challenging for many people in the group. What it provides the necessary tools for the people in the group to feel better, communicate better and be open on how they feel it can also cause a lot of distress on the sense of some patients feeling exposed and not well understood in some cases. Based on my experience with groups I can say that in my practice now I see and opportunity to work on patients with eating disorders. I see many overweight patients needing a change in their habits and lifestyle and also young patients suffering with instances were skipping meals and following a strict diet has become a medical problem. A group psychotherapy for people in my practice suffering from these eating disorders will be a great idea.