A new adult mental health group is developed at a multipurpose social agency. The members agree to focus on work habits that have contributed to difficulties in completing tasks. The clients have obsessive-compulsive characteristics and were referred because of difficulties completing tasks. The focus of the group would most likely
A. include having clients write a summary of each meeting.
B. lead toward having the obsessive-compulsive components become ego syntonic.
C. include encounter techniques.
D. seek to have the obsessive-compulsive components become ego dystonic.
D. seek to have the obsessive-compulsive components become ego dystonic.
This group is unusually focused on a single behavioral characteristic. Obsessive compulsive characteristics that inhibit the completion of work are often experienced by clients as appropriate attention to detail. In this sense, the goal of treatment is to help them experience this behavior as a problem - or ego dystonic.
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