Objectives:

• Define closed, open and single-session groups
• Explore the benefits and challenges for each
• Identify the developmental phases for open groups
• Discuss the process and necessary skills for managing open-ended groups

Objectives

• Match clients with substance abuse treatment groups.
• Assess clients’ readiness to participate in group therapy.
• Determine clients’ needs for specialized groups
  

• Learn how to help patients set healthy boundaries and explore reasons for not maintaining those boundaries
• Explore techniques for teaching effective communication skills
  
• Review individual differences in time management strategies and help clients develop individualized plans
  

Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 166 Interpersonal Skills

Objectives:

• The indications and contraindications for group therapy
• Types of groups
• Stages of group formation
• Group curative factors
• Therapist’s role in group
• Models of career counseling
• Career counseling assessment instruments

Objectives

• Define the basis of CBT
• Learn how to do a functional analysis
• Explore
• Problem solving
• Contracting
• Addressing Cognitive Distortions
• ABC-DE
• Cognitive Restructuring
• Cognitive Processing Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment

Based on Counselor Toolbox Episode 169 CBT Group Activities and Interventions

Objectives

• Discuss the characteristics of group leaders.
  
• Describe concepts and techniques for conducting substance abuse treatment group therapy.

• Explore group counseling methods and skills
• Identify the five models of group therapy currently used in substance abuse treatment and the three other types of groups that can be integrated into the five models
• Differentiate between 12-step self-help groups and interpersonal process groups
• Identify at least 10 advantages of group treatment
• Identify the three modifications that need to be made to group treatment in order to improve its effectiveness in substance abuse settings
• Discuss how the client's stage of readiness for change affects the types of groups he or she will be in
• Describe the characteristics of each of the five group models used in substance abuse treatment
• Effectively match clients with appropriate groups
• Accurately assess client readiness for group primary placement considerations
• Identify as six dimensions assess for the ASAM patient placement criteria
• Identify the six levels of treatment identified by the ASAM patient placement criteria that
• Identify the three other criteria we should be considered when determining the patient's appropriateness for group therapy
• Identify the difference between culture, cultural knowledge, cultural awareness, and cultural competence
• Understand the components of the diversity wheel
• Identify strategies for handling issues that arise when group norms and cultural values conflict
• Identify the six guidelines for clinicians on the evaluating bias and prejudice
• Identify for techniques that can be helpful in providing substance abuse treatment to a culturally diverse groups
• Identify six guidelines for preparing the group for a new member from a racial or ethnic minority
• Discuss the benefits of fixed and revolving membership groups
• Identify the most effective ways to prepare client for participation in groups is that
• Be familiar with the recommended issues to discuss in pre-group interviews
• Discuss ways for increasing retention in groups
• Identify specific group tasks appropriate for each phase of the group
• Discuss how to convert conflict and resistance in the positive energy that powers the group's
• Explain how to deal with disruptive group members
• Explain how to cool down runaway affect or turn a crisis into an opportunity
• Identify six of the most common errors the group leaders make
• Describe four types of training that are recommended for group therapists

Objectives

• Review the benefits of groups 
• Identify the modalities for group
• Identify goals for psychoeducational and skills groups addressing anger, anxiety, addiction and depression
• Explore activities that can be used to enhance group engagement

Objectives

Goal: Provide an overview of group therapy used in substance abuse and mental health treatment. 

• Discuss the use of group therapy in substance abuse treatment. 
• Define five group therapy models used in substance abuse treatment. 
• Explain the advantages of group therapy. 
• Modify group therapy to treat substance abuse