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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2019 through Spring 2024
- Course Number:
- AD 152
- Course Title:
- Group Counseling and Addiction
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Introduces the methodology for group counseling. Includes strategies for group development and for effective group leader facilitation. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
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Employ strategies for effective group development.
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Employ effective trauma-informed group interventions.
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Function as a group facilitator by implementing group interventions.
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Maintain confidentiality, healthy boundaries, and ethical practice in group leadership.
Course Activities and Design
- Document attendance at a minimum of three self-help meetings and demonstrate recognition of how group principles manifest in self-help groups.
- Demonstrate knowledge of group concepts through written assignments.
- Demonstrate ability to apply group leadership skills by co-facilitating in class role play group.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The outcome assessment strategies will include but not be limited to the following:
1. Students will have an opportunity to facilitate an in class group experience to practice targeted interventions.
2. Students will develop a "tool box" of interventions they will apply during class practice with their fellow students.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Various types of groups and factors which contribute to group formation and function.
- Process and content issues.
- Stages of group growth and characteristics behaviors of each stage.
- The role and function of various group roles.
- The purpose and responsibility of a group facilitator.
- The appropriate and inappropriate use of counselor self-disclosure in a group situation.
- The roles of facilitator and co-facilitator.
- Creating and implementing group interventions.
- Structured exercises most appropriate to current stage of group growth.
- Confidentiality and membership selection.
- Informed consent for group treatment
- Addiction specific groups
- Addiction specific self-help meetings
- Principles of effective feedback
- Personal facilitation style
- Student strengths and growth areas in leadership role.
- Therapeutic curative factors in groups.
- Norms of behavior that promote growth within groups.
- Therapeutic interventions and when it is appropriate to use them.
- Group closure and evaluation of the group experience.