Group Leadership II

Catalog description

This course in group counseling is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills training in advanced group leadership and advanced counseling skills and techniques. Students will learn to: broaden their effective questioning skills in order to identify client defense mechanisms, symptoms of psychopathology, improve awareness in addressing co-occurring disorders and other considerations when working with resistant clients and other barriers effecting treatment outcome. They will learn how to use and integrate counseling theories, engage in depth work with clients, and how to develop a group session format. Advanced skill delivery methods will be demonstrated and integrated in the course simulation exercises. Special attention will also be given to addressing and managing difficult clients, court-mandated and probation-mandated treatment program requirements; and interacting with probationers/parolees. Other counseling issues will be addressed as they relate to working within the scope of practice and competence for addiction professionals which support evidence-based treatment practices.