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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
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Match clients with substance abuse treatment groups.
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Assess clients’ readiness to participate in group therapy.
- Determine clients’ needs for specialized groups
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Discuss the characteristics of group leaders.
- Describe concepts and techniques for conducting substance abuse treatment group therapy.
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
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Review the benefits of groups
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Identify the modalities for group
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Identify goals for psychoeducational and skills groups addressing anger, anxiety, addiction and depression
- Explore activities that can be used to enhance group engagement
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
Goal: Provide an overview of group therapy used in substance abuse and mental health treatment.
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Discuss the use of group therapy in substance abuse treatment.
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Define five group therapy models used in substance abuse treatment.
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Explain the advantages of group therapy.
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Modify group therapy to treat substance abuse
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes