Group is the extent to which members of a group support and validate one another at work

Once clients are engaged actively in treatment, retention becomes a priority. Many obstacles may arise during treatment. Lapses may occur. Frequently, clients are unable or unwilling to adhere to program requirements. Repeated admissions and dropouts can occur. Clients may have conflicting mandates from various service systems. Concerns about client and staff relationships, including setting appropriate boundaries, can compromise care. Intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) programs need to have clear decisionmaking processes and retention strategies to address these and other circumstances.

This chapter discusses common issues that IOT programs face and offers practical approaches to retaining clients in treatment. Experience has taught IOT clinicians that every problem can have many solutions and that the input and ideas of colleagues lead to creative approaches and solutions. The chapter presents specific scenarios and options from clinical practice and experience for clinicians to consider, modify, or implement.

Habitualization describes how any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern. In short, habitualization means creating habits based on environment and/or society’s stimulation.  

EXPLANATION:  

The word “habitualization” first came from Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s book entitled The Social Construction of Reality. Berger and Luckmann were sociologists who wrote that book in 1966. In that book, Berger and Luckmann stated that habitualization means the society which is created by human and its interaction with each other. Habitualization is “any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which then be performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort” (Berger and Luckmann 1966).  

Habitualization is done by us, as human being.. Society, where we live in, is created by us from the repeated actions or activities. We, as human, construct our own society, where we live, and accept is as it is naturally because others (humans, individuals, people) in the past have created it. Society is the real and right example of “habit” and “habitualization”.

For example, we go to school every day. We see school as “school” with all of its norms, rules, regulation, activities, and many more, and we don’t just see it as just “a building” because we and others have agreed that it is a school, not just a regular building as the other building. People before us have created a habitualization by creating a school building as a school we know and visit every day.  

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1.Group cohesiveness  

KEYWORDS: group cohesion, what is group cohesion, cohesion, group cohesiveness

Subject: Social Studies

Class: College

Sub-chapter: Group cohesion

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