During the group meetings the first one went well and for the most part everyone shared who they are Greving and how they feel, The group seems to be struggling without side support system and healthy coping habits. The group seems to be only stuck on talking about their grief and not trying to talk of coping skills nor support outside the group. However, a few of the members seem happy to offer their support to the ones that need it. For the most part the group structure here is strong other than Karla and Beverly speaking over each other and not respecting each other's voice or opinion/ advice.
The groups Social worker/ counselor seems be able to take control back of the group but in my opinion, she should have sooner interacted in the conversation before they started speaking over each other. I believe Karla may seem like her strong personality comes off as she thinks she's better than the rest of the group and she feels like she honestly can handle her grief on her own but is only there to please her sister and get her to hush. Beverly seems to not be able to accept the fact that her son wasn't the outstanding child she always believed he was and she can't accept that he chose to do drugs and he was an adult who made that choice and it had consequences and it took his life, Beverly seems to want to put her anger towards the girlfriend and make her the bad guy. Patty seems to want people around to help her void the feeling of her husband being gone. John doesn't seem to be ready to open fully up about how he is feeling and what happened to his brother. Christy seems to be stuck on only wanting to talk about her grief and not really take action and try to surpass her mothers passing. She seems stuck due to their relationship.