Students will learn to enhance the effectiveness of groups by examining a variety of roles, models, and norms of group work. Students will develop therapeutic group leadership skills through facilitation of simulated group sessions.
Prerequisites
Admission to BAS Behavioral Health Program
1. Explain the purposes and benefits of client groups in behavioral health and social services
2. Identify the stages of groups and the opportunities and challenges within each stage
3. Articulate the difference between didactic groups, process groups, and self-help groups
4. Develop and sustain working alliances and therapeutic relationships with clients
5. Attend to the interpersonal dynamics that both strengthen and potentially threaten the working alliance
6. Select interventions appropriate to the beginning, middle, and end stages of groups
1. Theoretical foundations of group counseling and group work
2. Dynamics associated with group process and development
3. Therapeutic factors of group work and how they contribute to group effectiveness
4. Characteristics and functions of effective group leaders
5. Approaches to group formation, including recruiting, screening, and selecting members
6. Application of technology related to group counseling and group work
7. Types of groups, settings, and other considerations that affect conducting groups
8. Culturally sustaining and developmentally responsive strategies for designing and facilitating groups
9. Ethical and legal considerations relative to the delivery of group counseling and group work across service delivery modalities