Group Treatment Methods

Catalog description

The major goal of this course is to explore in depth the essential issues of group treatment and facilitation. Students will strengthen core clinical skills through participation in class discussions, through observation, participation and/or leadership of the demonstration group and through group supervision. There will be a particular focus on students’ individual and interpersonal dynamics in response to the course material and process. Students will additionally explore issues related to forming a therapeutic alliance, working with client resistance, deepening client expressions of feeling, understanding transference and countertransference and handling termination of the therapeutic relationship.