Evaluating Effectiveness And Efficiency Paper

A unique aspect of the cognitive behavioral approach in group therapy is the focus on specific target areas of change. The members are responsible for formulating specific statements of the personal goals they want to achieve. The group leader is responsible for helping the members break down their goals into specific, concrete, and measureable goals. An agenda is set at the beginning of each session in a collaborative fashion with the members and group leader in order to prioritize

Policy making in criminal justice can be broken down into two main focal points; monitoring and evaluation. During the monitoring phase, this is where factual information about policy goals are monitored. During the evaluation phase, this is where the question arises; did the monitoring phase address the potential outcome of the intended objective? In criminal justice, the formal evaluation model would benefit these types of policies. This paper will summarize the formal evaluation model and explain why it is the most effective evaluation process in criminal justice. This paper will also look at a policy involved with criminal justice and provide reasoning

It is with out a doubt that in our country the United States of America the lower and middle class have the common perception that the government and the “super rich” have some kind of unknown agreement to maintain extremely lower tax rates on the “super rich”. What do the “super rich” do with all the saved money coming from the tax cut is another unknown, perhaps some luxurious new home, car, or maybe put it to work and continue getting richer. While all this may be true to some degree, one of the “super rich” elite members has stepped fourth not only once but a few time but none compare to his current attempt to make change.

The resistance I dealt was my household. Everyone in my household also ate out a lot. So when I was trying to cut my spending

The ancient practice of yoga is called meditation in motion ( ). It is a technique that uses physical postures and controlled breathing to lengthen and strengthen the spine and increase flexibility. It also builds strength, calms the mind, improves concentration, promotes patience, and relieves stress. Yoga can also contribute to a greater sense of control in more acute states when experiencing drug cravings, insomnia, and agitation ( ). Many addicts in recovery find that the serenity they learned in yoga acts as a natural tranquilizer that allows them to step back and evaluate their thoughts with greater clarity. A person who experiences a craving, for example, may apply the practice of mindfulness to that craving and acknowledges it without emotion. One can recognize it as an object of active addiction and let it go without using the drug. Regular yoga practice is needed to fully experience these kind of benefits. Overall, the huge addiction problem is complex, requiring multiple methods of intervention and

Objective ---Mindfulness is known as the ability to maintain a continuous awareness of environment, feelings, sensations, and thoughts. This practice focuses on the acceptance of what is happening around and within ourselves by being conscious of our feelings and thoughts. The significance of feelings and thoughts, especially negativity, has shown to impact a patient 's treatment by ultimately relapsing into the use of substance of abuse. Mindfulness has been studied for over 30 years, however there is not an abundant amount of clinical evidence to support the use of mindfulness training in substance abuse recovery. The goal of this manuscript is to compile information from clinical trials about the benefits, efficacy, and use of the practice of mindfulness in substance abuse recovery.

The first hour consisted of a trained master’s level clinician facilitating the group discussions, and the second hour the mentors and mentee talk to one another individually. The days of treatment are Mondays and Tuesdays for 2 quarters, which is 1 semester for both CBT and psychodynamic supportive therapy. The subjects were compared and defined by which form of therapy he or she received during a 2 month interval (baseline 2 months, 2 to 4 months). The first session involved the mentors and the mentees interacting and building rapport. Each meeting consist of a licensed social worker who specialize in either cognitive behavioral therapy or psychodynamic supportive therapy. The social worker will start each meeting with the group rules, and the youth are allowed to add to the group rules. Then, the social worker will read a meditation that will make all of the youth in the group feel relaxed, and

The new intervention that I would like to implement at Huther Doyle is meditation. Using meditation and mindfulness will help patients be able to center themselves and provide a time for centering in their hectic lives. Normal group sessions are two hours long. When implementing meditation the same length of group time will be necessary for billing purposes. The two hour session will be distributed with the first 30 minutes consisting of meditation and the last hour and a half consisting of discussion. The meditation will be led by the primary group counselor or myself. The goal of meditation is to reduce chemical and substance use and abuse by the patients of Huther Doyle.

Drug addiction detoxification and rehabilitation requires time and many steps in order for the affected person to succeed. Every addict is a fingerprint. The individual biochemistry, social history and personality of the addict means that each person may respond to different therapies to achieve success in recovery. Holistic therapies such as nutrition, chiropractic, acupuncture, meditation, art and music therapy, horse assisted therapy and neurofeedback training are being researched and employed in various treatment facilities as an adjunct to the more traditional therapies such as medical detox, individual counseling and behavioral therapies. Even hallucinogenic drugs have been used safely and effectively as a short term intervention for addictions. The use of these unique approaches allows more addicts an opportunity for recovery, especially if they were previously unsuccessful with the more standard therapies.

Questionnaires will be given, face to face, to all participants and will be completed with paper and pencil. Participants will be thanked for their participation and debriefed at the end of the experiment. Mindfulness Meditation. Participants will participate in mindfulness mediation, a type of Buddhist meditation, giving participants the ability to be present in the moment and not to be overly reactive to situations happening around them. Further, mindfulness meditation gives participants awareness to whom they are and their overall

During my mental health and psychiatric clinical rotation, one of the tasks I had to perform was assembling a group meeting for the patients on the unit. This type of clinical was completely different than previous clinicals. In the past, clinical consisted of medical interventions such as head to toe assessments, administering medications, and helping a patient ambulate. The focus of this clinical was quite different. Interventions focused more on the patient’s mental well-being and having the ability to not only interact with patients, but make them feel comfortable enough to express all and any type of feelings. After weeks of conversing with different patients, there were a few overall recurring concerns each patient had. They felt it difficult at times to turn negative situations or thoughts into positives and in turn this contributed to elevated levels of stress. With this in mind, I decided to conduct my group around cognitive behavioral therapy, reframing thoughts, and positive affirmations. These three topics combined not only could help the patients change their negative thought processes, but they can be used as a guide to help them in the future.

and mindfulness as promising complementary therapies for treating and preventing addictive behaviors. Moreover, this article discussed three current exemplary clinical research programs which integrate theory-driven models of addiction and science, with real-world practice implications for meditation and yoga as potential complementary therapies. These included: Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MRBP) for alcohol and illicit substance abuse, Mindfulness Training for Smoking Cessation, and Mindfulness Orientated Recovery Enhancement (MORE).

As a supervisor in the U.S. Navy, I have always taken the initiative to evaluate workplace processes and procedures that can be improved for optimal effectiveness and efficiency in accomplishing organizational objectives. For example, as the work center supervisor in a military hospital pharmacy, I recognized pharmacy workload data used to capture medical expense & performance reporting was absent or incorrectly counted. I implemented quality management procedures to identify deficient system codes which were corrected. This action increased the capture of pharmacy workload data by 269%, enabling expense reporting and product cost management to be properly reported for Military Health System decision-making and performance

This paper discusses the relative impact of recruitment/selection, training, and development for organizational effectiveness. First, recruitment and selection is discussed. Job analysis is very important in the selection process because it provides a realistic job preview and it identifies relevant traits and abilities needed for the job. Furthermore, predictive validity of several selection methods are discussed from which work samples, GMA, tests, and structured interviews are appeared to be the best predictors of future job performance. Second, the impact of training on organizational effectiveness is discussed. Training design issues are discussed, and it is argued that training can increase organizational effectiveness

The results of this study showed significant improvement in quality of life, anxiety, and blood pressure in the meditation group. While in controls, quality of life deteriorated and there was no improvement in blood pressure.