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
Objectives
  • 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.
    Objectives
    • 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