Group Counseling

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide the student with both a theoretical and an experiential approach to group counseling dynamics and processes. Group leadership skills and group membership skills will be emphasized as well as theoretical applications. Specific topics covered include group stages, purposes, and kinds of groups, forming a group and creating trust in a group, initial sessions, orientations, and member roles, models of group and consultation model, group facilitation skills and group leadership styles, person-centered groups, gestalt groups, behavioral groups, reality therapy groups, and REBT groups.