Description
This Training is Being Offered By:
The Opioid Treatment Health Home Initiative and The New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center
Group therapy is a popular setting for the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. As a result, a counselor will often experience their first and major role as an addiction treatment provider facilitating group therapy. Often the skills needed to conduct a group session are not formally taught within the treatment environment. Rather, professionals will gain their knowledge through practice and experience only. In response, this course will provide basic group counseling skills that apply evidence-based research into real world practice. Skills that address heterogeneous group populations (various stages of their recovery process, age, gender, cultural diversity, sexual orientations, substance use, dual diagnoses, socioeconomic status, education, and support systems) unique to substance abuse treatment will be provided.
In this six-hour virtual course, case examples and “role playing” exercises will support understanding the subjective experiences and insight about becoming a part of the group system rather than the appearance of a “separate” group facilitator. Upon completion of this course, participants will have the counseling skills to “join” individual group members where they are at in their recovery process while utilizing their individual strengths and resources to create a “whole” resilient group.
Continuing Education Credits:
Social Worker CEUs: This training is pending approval by the National Association of Social Workers for 6.0 continuing education credits.
Chemical Dependency Professionals CEUs: This training has been approved by the RI Certification Board for 6.0 continuing education credits (The RICB is an IC&RC affiliate).
Mental Health Counselors CEUs: This training is pending approval by the RI Mental Health Counselors Association for 6.0 continuing education credits.
Instructor: Dee Lexandra, PhD, MSW, LCSW, CAP
Objectives
- Knowledge of the basic structure and principles of organizing and developing a clinical group.
- Identify steps for group cohesiveness.
- Working with the group to establish realistic, achievable goals consistent with achieving and maintaining recovery.
- Facilitate the development of basic and life skills associated with recovery for group members.
- Adapt group counseling strategies to the individual characteristics of the group members, including but not limited to disability, gender, sexual orientation, developmental level, culture, ethnicity, age, and health status while creating a “whole” resilient group.
Learning Credits
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