Psycho-Education. Psychoeducation is designed to educate members about substance abuse and related behaviors and consequences. Psychoeducation provides information designed to have a direct application to members’ lives, to instill self-awareness, suggest options for growth and change, identify community resources that can assist members in recovery, develop an understanding of the process of recovery, and prompt people using substances to act on their own behalf. Psychoeducation can be provided to individuals and to groups.
Psycho-Education. I provided Xxxx with affective education around anxiety and familiarised him with the CBT model. I explained that anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling in our body that includes feeling stressed and worried, which comes with thoughts in our head and impacts on how we feel and what we do. The comic strip of Xxxx’s ‘meltdown’ revealed that he was experiencing physiological symptoms of anxiety but was interpreting them literally (i.e. ‘stabbing in the heart and brain’) which was likely to be contributing to his overall anxiety and extreme reactions. I supported Xxxx to learn about anxiety by harnessing his special interest in animals and drawing skills and using a comic strip about the ‘flight or fight response’ using the caveman versus a saber-toothed tiger story.
