Group Therapy in School Setting

Catalog description

The course explores the different evidence-based group interventions that are appropriate for children, adolescents, and parents in the school setting. It deepens in offering successful group interventions for children, adolescents and parents from recruitment, planning, organization and establishment of the group. The course elaborates on the obstacles that may occur from behavior management of participants to resistance to group processes, rules and expectations and how to address them. The course is intended to identify the phases of group interventions in schools and how to engage group members so that there is progress in the behaviors or situations that needed to be worked on and to gather information to make decisions based on the data that guide the school psychologist to the appropriate completion of group work. The discussion of the topics focuses on the importance, roles, and functions of school psychologists in group interventions.