Psychoeducational Group for Children

Psychoeducational Group for Children
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Group description
I plan to form a long-term counseling group that will involve children from the 1st to the 5th grades. The group will target aggressive students that have anger management issue and find it difficult to respect themselves and other people. This involves both in the school and the home environments. The counseling will take place in a class setting because the school is a convenient place to meet all the students at once. I chose this group of students because parents and teachers are facing the challenge of dealing with children that are not able to control their anger, show an aggressive behavior and do not respect one another. My interest in this topic is helping the children overcome such behavior so that they can become respectable people in the future. I also have an interest in children and therefore, interacting with them will give me the satisfaction of having helped someone have a bright future. I have seen adults that have anger management issue and it often distracts a lot of activities in their lives such as relationships (Brooks, McGahey & Jenkins, 2017). I would wish for the children to pass through the same once they have grown and hence, it is better to teach them while they are still young.
Rationale
This group aims to ensure that by the end of the course, the children have learned how to control their anger and temper. This will include their dealings in both the school environment and at home. The children will also be taught how to respect themselves and other people. Therefore, the goals and objectives will be specific towards the solving of the issues that affect the children. To achieve the goals within a group setting, various activities will be organized that will enable the kids to interact with one another in a manner which will teach them on how to socialize with one another. As well, oral lessons will also be given regarding the disadvantages of the of the behaviors being expressed by the kids. They will be given various options that they can follow to eliminate their anger issues and be taught on the essence of respecting oneself and others. The long-range goals will be evaluated during the course by allocating the students different activities that will require them to work as a team hence triggering their emotions. The instructor will then inspect the effectiveness of each of the children to interact with one another without being aggressive or showing anger. The student will also play an important role in reporting cases of disrespect from another student. This will help the instructor in determining whether the lessons have been effective or not. They will also identify specific students that require certain improvements and focus on them during the remaining part of the course. This can be done by changing the techniques used to teach them by speculating that the new methods will have a positive impact. At the end of the course, students will be given a written exam to test on their effectiveness to decide on their reactions towards different situations in life. The exam will vary from one grade to the other because children from the different ages display the behavior in question diffe...