At the community mental health center, several borderline personality disorder (BPD) clients have been utilizing the crisis unit with increasing frequency. They have been doing self-mutilating activities but are not suicidal; they are using it to get attention. You need to intervene to reduce the use of those services. The goal is to reduce the costs of crisis intervention services for 7 clients in the center. The director believes art therapy groups could be effective.
Include examples of issues that would be addressed in this group and strategies that would be used in working with this type of group.
How would the group be beneficial to these clients and why?