Published Jan 18, 2009
TRISHA,SN
40 Posts
Hello all, I am seeking any and all ideas to help me. I am doing my psyc clinical next week at a community hospital. They have an inpatient unit that also takes partial hospitalization patients as well as outpatients. My duty is to come up with a plan to do a group activity for 45 min to 1 hour in length. most of the patients that I will be dealing with are there for personality disorders and ages range from 12-20 on one unit and then 21- older adult on the other. That is the catch I won't know what group i will have until that day. The project is to be something suited for all ages and easily "tweaked" to be flexible .......see my deliema? I am really having a brain block due to the fact that I really need this to go well.....HUGE part of my grade for this rotation. Thanks in advance to anyone who has any fun, creative, and practical ideas! I have tried thinking about this since we were informed of it on Friday and this is how I feel!
fiveofpeep
1,237 Posts
keep safety in mind, like doing all cutting before hand
some things we thought of were, picture frames, general art, music therapy type things, bringing in different types of food from different cultures and discussing them, making jewelry, makeup/hair-dos/pedicure/manicure...
I think the big goal isnt how amazing the group is, it's more about being safe and managing outbursts