New organizations founded by students have made their debuts this year, including Baking Club, Model UN and Adventure Club.
“I think it’s great that people are making new clubs because they get to express new ideas and new opinions and make more people understand and accept them,” senior Jeremiah Williams said. “People see new interests because they’re in new clubs. They also give opportunities for people who make the clubs to become leaders.”
Member get to learn about culinary safety and baking from scratch in socials held after school in room 152 on the first Monday of every month except November in preparation for Homecoming Carnival. In addition to baking fudge brownies, cookies, and other goods at socials and competitive events, members may also have opportunities to earn volunteer hours. Baking Club founder and president, senior Falak Farhan, ran a successful first meeting on Sept. 13 with an immense turnout of 107 signups.
“There’s a lot of people in school that like baking but don’t have ingredients at home or have the permission, so we’re making that easier for them,” Farhan said. “It’s an easier way to meet a lot of people who are into the same things as you when everyone comes together in a club. I want people to learn things they didn’t know before in baking and make friends.”
Model UN is an organization simulating the United Nations General Assembly introducing diplomacy and negotions to students representing different nations and councils. In competition, members pick their committees and countries ahead of time and debate as delegates on various important issues. Model UN students most often attend and compete in conferences for Houston Area Model United Nations (HAMUN) at the University of Houston. Model UN founder, junior Theiija Balasubramanian, along with co-founders, juniors Noor Iqbal and Armin Momin, initiated the club. They hope to host more socials, organize a booth for upcoming carnivals and become more active in competitions.
“We go to HAMUN, which is the Houston area Model UN,” secretary Iqbal said. “I’m hoping that it [Model UN] will really take off, that we’re going to do well and be able to defend this, and that we become a more tight-knit group.”
The Adventure Club is another new organization that emphasizes appreciation for the outdoors and gives back to the community. The club meets every second Wednesday of the month in Rm. 220 for meetings, community service opportunities and outdoor activities outside of school as well. Adventure Club founder and president, senior T’shai Christopher, was inspired after attending a young women’s leadership conference over the summer and wanted to create an organization that encourages them to be active outdoors with an intent for students to balance blue light with sunlight.
“It’s a club that gets kids less dependent on technology and more involved in community service and the environment,” Christopher said. “I know that in my school community I can reach out to people here. It’s just the idea of starting a club to get people to really understand my passion.”
Group therapy is defined as a counseling process whereby groups of people usually assemble together under a therapist who is well trained. The aim of this is to offer help to the individuals and guide them so that they can come out of their present conditions or challenges. This is the mode of treatment that has been used for many years in different individuals. There are several advantages to this approach. Firstly, it enables understanding and learning from each other. It also enables the groups to learn how to approach different issues in their lives.
It is comparable to individual therapy since it enhances growth of the person in terms of developing methods of dealing with issues (interpersonal or personal challenges). However, it differs in the sense that it involves the application of multiple relationships to enhance the achievement of the goals (Yalom, 1995). It is a psychotherapeutic process which involves selection of small manageable groups of persons who are assigned to a professional (group therapist). In order to enhance the process of emotional growth and development of important skills, meetings are organized regularly.
Therefore, this aim can only be achieved through the joint efforts of the therapist and the group members (Corey M and Corey G. , 2009). Principles of group therapy Most group therapists are guided by certain principles as they carry out their counseling process. These include; instilling hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of social techniques, corrective recollection of experiences, Imitative behavior, interpersonal learning, group cohesiveness, catharsis and existential factors (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009).
Hope, universality and sharing information Instilling hope is done by integrating individuals who are in the same process of treatment. In this way, those who are beginning the processes will have the hope of going through the same treatment protocol. This is due to the fact that recovery of other individuals will give them the courage to go through the same process to successful completion. Universality basically implies that individuals will accept what they are going through when they see or associate with others who have gone through the same in life.
Therefore, a therapist should group his according to their experiences in life. In doing so, the experience will be viewed as being universal and not necessarily affecting specific types of people. The third principle involves the process of imparting information. The therapist should allow the members in his group to share information with each other. This will make them understand and help one another (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Altruism, socialization techniques and corrective recapitulation Altruism involves the process of sharing the strengths.
This will help in boosting the self esteem of the group members and help them develop confidence. The other principle is development of social techniques. The group environment is also considered to be the best place to embrace new forms of behaviors. This is due to the fact that the members will not have any fear of trying new things out. It gives them room for safe experimentation with full support from the other members. The therapy group further allows for its members to explore their experiences in the past and relate them to their personalities.
In this way, they will be able to avoid destructive behaviors that might affect their lives and embrace those that will help them in life. This is known as corrective recapitulation (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Imitation, interperonal learning and cohesiveness Imitation of behavior will enable other members in a group to copy what the group therapist is doing. This will enable most or all the members in the group to develop and learn new behavior from the therapist through observation.
Interpersonal learning is an important principle which arises from the process of interaction within the group among the members and other people including the therapist. Interpersonal learning is important in the process of better understanding of oneself. Group cohesiveness creates a sense of union with each other hence they will feel accepted and as one unit. This is due to the fact that the members have a common goal (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Catharsis and Existential factors
On the other hand, the process of sharing information with a number of individuals might be helpful in pain or stress relief for the members. This is known as catharsis and it is considered as a powerful and an important experience. It allows the person to release his feelings which leads to relief. It is considered as an emotional form of learning which has both short and long term effects. The environment will enhance the members to develop such experiences. Existential factors are described as life’s realities experienced by a person. These also include death, freedom and isolation.
These can cause anxiety in an individual. However, the process of openness and sharing within the group will help a person to accept such happenings in life (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Group Therapist The group therapist should be well trained, act professionally, be reliable and available. He should be a keen listener and slow to anger. These qualities will make him blend well with his patient and enhance a smooth communication and open discussions. He should also be free so as to facilitate a free discussion on any topic with the members in his group.
Moreover, he should be trustworthy to prevent the members from living in fear (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Conclusion It has been shown that group therapies are usually beneficial to a large number of individuals who have successfully participated in them. This also applies to individual psychotherapy which is also widely used. Most of the patients have been reported to become better persons who understand and accept themselves more. Moreover, they have also developed important skills such as interpersonal and problem solving skills.
We present a model of human decision-making that can be used to design future financial services. The purpose of our model is to collate a wide variety of observed financial practices of the privileged and the poor into a common framework that can be applied in different contexts. Think of it as a vocabulary with which to organize our financial behavior and a set of design principles for financial services that can accommodate and facilitate this behavior. Such services will offer greater control to customers and will generate greater value for the businesses serving them.
Mas, Ignacio and Murthy, Gayatri, Money, Decisions, and Control (July 24, 2017). CGAP Working Paper, 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3008289
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