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Creative Arts Personal Growth (Capg) Group Leader Manual, Lisa S. Sosin, Sandra Noble
Creative Arts Personal Growth (Capg) Group Leader Manual, Lisa S. Sosin, Sandra Noble
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CAPG focuses on forming a safe community to process and recover from feelings of fear and shame, as seen in the sub-title: Transforming Fear and Shame with Compassion, Courage, and Community. Why make the focus of a personal growth or counseling group fear and shame? Shame, which includes the experience of fear, has been described as a trans-diagnostic, underlying cause of many clinical concerns. CAPG combines best practices for the treatment of shame and fear and explicitly focuses on helping participants form a safe, inclusive relationship with one another to heal from shame.