Support Group Experience Assignment/Paper
The student will participate in an observational Support Group Experience. Choose a Support Group that meets the course objectives, (i.e., Caregiver group, NAMI-National Alliance for the Mentally Ill support groups, Compassionate Friends-Grief support groups, Family-Survivors of Suicide support groups, cancer support groups). Each student is responsible for contacting the selected facilities/agencies and arranging the participant-observer experience.
Call the Group Leader to obtain permission to attend. Maintain professional appearance and behavior while in groups – remember you are a guest and represent your Nursing program.
Write a 4 – 5 page (excluding title page and reference pages) paper on this experience.
Discuss the purpose of the support group attended.
Describe the demographics of the group (e.g., number of members in attendance, gender, ages)
Discuss the roles of the support group leader in relation to the group members.
Identify the therapeutic factors (Yalom, 2005) you observed in the group. Give an example of each factor identified.
