CCOG for AD 152 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- AD 152
- Course Title:
- Group Counseling and Addiction
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Introduces the methodology for group counseling. Includes strategies for group development and for effective group leader facilitation. Prerequisites: Admission into the Addiction Counseling Program. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
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Employ strategies for effective group development.
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Employ effective trauma-informed group interventions.
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Function as a group facilitator by implementing group interventions.
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Maintain confidentiality, healthy boundaries, and ethical practice in group leadership.
Course Activities and Design
- Document attendance at a minimum of three self-help meetings and demonstrate recognition of how group principles manifest in self-help groups.
- Demonstrate knowledge of group concepts through written assignments.
- Demonstrate ability to apply group leadership skills by co-facilitating in class role play group.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The outcome assessment strategies will include but not be limited to the following:
1. Students will have an opportunity to facilitate an in class group experience to practice targeted interventions.
2. Students will develop a "tool box" of interventions they will apply during class practice with their fellow students.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Various types of groups and factors which contribute to group formation and function.
- Process and content issues.
- Stages of group growth and characteristics behaviors of each stage.
- The role and function of various group roles.
- The purpose and responsibility of a group facilitator.
- The appropriate and inappropriate use of counselor self-disclosure in a group situation.
- The roles of facilitator and co-facilitator.
- Creating and implementing group interventions.
- Structured exercises most appropriate to current stage of group growth.
- Confidentiality and membership selection.
- Informed consent for group treatment
- Addiction specific groups
- Addiction specific self-help meetings
- Principles of effective feedback
- Personal facilitation style
- Student strengths and growth areas in leadership role.
- Therapeutic curative factors in groups.
- Norms of behavior that promote growth within groups.
- Therapeutic interventions and when it is appropriate to use them.
- Group closure and evaluation of the group experience.