Pre-requisite Course(s)

COUN110 Personal Growth

COUN200 Theories & Systems in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Course Aims

This course is designed to help students understand and plan different types of groups (e.g. counselling groups, psychoeducational groups, psychotherapy groups) and develop facilitation skills in group work.  To reach this goal, the course tries to do the difficult tasks for each student of integrating experiences of being a group member with learning group leadership skills.  Therefore, each student’s own reflections of group experiences, self-awareness, knowledge of group processes and skills are all stressed.  The course teaches an overview of group dynamics, ethical and professional issues and gives supervised experiences for students as facilitators and participants.

1. explain the different procedures for forming a group;

 

2. identify the various types of group and the purposes and functions of each type;

 

3. identify and adhere to the professional codes of ethics applicable to group work;

 

4. implement effective interventional strategies and techniques accordingly;

 

5. plan topics, write proposals and session plans for psychoeducational groups;

 

6. initiate, facilitate, sustain and terminate groups;

 

7. evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses in group processes and group facilitation leadership; and

 

8. apply psychoeducational groups in different settings.