Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:
1. Differentiate process from content issues and apply both in group counseling with the addicted population.
2. Employ effective trauma informed group interventions in addiction counseling.
3. Function as a group facilitator by implementing group interventions.
4. Maintain confidentiality, healthy boundaries and ethical practice in group leadership.

1. Document attendance at a minimum of three self-help meetings and demonstrate recognition of how group principles manifest in self-help groups.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of group concepts through written assignments.
3. Demonstrate ability to apply group leadership skills by co-facilitating in class role play group.
    

• 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.