Overview: Same as Previous Weeks.
Learning Objectives:
- Growth & Healing Strategies: Understand and demonstrate Corrective Emotional Experience # H-Process Implicit Core Emotional Learnings in Earlier Relationships/Situations to Strengthen a Micro-Capacity
- Group Dynamics: Learn how to lead the termination session.
Optional Learning Objective:
- Review NICC Core Competencies and Skills Markers: Review and gain a deeper understanding of the Core Competency: Player Compassion (7).
- Psychodynamic Understanding of Personality and Personality Styles: Each week you have the option of learning about one of the 10 personality disorders. This week you can learn to identify the major deficits in the Schizotypal, how they manifest themselves in the group, and what types of CEEs and other interventions are needed for growth and healing.
Preparation Materials and Activities:
Reading.
- Growth & Healing Strategies:
- Click here for the 1-page file on the Corrective Emotional Experience # H-Process Implicit Core Emotional Learnings in Earlier Relationships/Situations to Strengthen a Micro-Capacity
- . There are links you can click on to go deeper into the material. That is your option to take.
- Group Dynamics:
- Click Here for leading the 6-page file for the termination session.
Videos.
- Click Here for Scott Makin’s terminations session with a group that had been meeting for 40 weeks (6-2-22). Watch 66 minutes of it.
Optional Preparation Materials and Activities: You can choose to do some of these if you have time or want to gain a deeper understanding of how to facilitate Therapy Groups.
Reading.
- NICC Review: You should have already read this section of the NICC Manual since it is required of every clinician at My Counselor Online. So just refresh your memory or learn it at one level deeper. Review for this week:
- Click here for the 1-page file on the Core Competency: Player Compassion (17/4).
- Psychodynamic:
- Click Here for the 1-page file on the psychodynamic principles at work in the personality structure of the different interpersonal coping styles that are often classified as personality disorders. For this week, only read the part on Schizotypal personality structure. There will be a link to a file that goes in greater depth on understanding and treating this interpersonal coping style.
Supervision. Set up an individual time with the Instructor for supervision in one of the following ways.
- Review and receive feedback on one of your individual counseling sessions (via tape) that demonstrates one of the concepts or skills you learned about in the last couple of weeks.
- Receive supervision (via tape) on one of the individuals you are seeing or a particular problematic counseling session and how to handle it differently. This supervision will help you gain a deeper understanding of how to identify deficit domains of character structure that are present in a person and change strategies that facilitate growth and healing.
- This kind of supervision will not only help you currently with your client but continue to teach you diagnostic and change strategy skills you will use in a group setting.
Watching Live Tape.
- Look at one of the Instructor’s Group Therapy sessions to see the concepts or skills you learned about in the last couple of weeks. Click Here for the 4-7-22 session.
Time Investment: 2 hours:
- Preparation Materials
- Reading: 6 minutes (3 pages estimating it will take you 2 minutes per page to read)
- Watch Video of Group Therapy led by Scott Makin: 90 minutes
- Learning Activities
- Posting in Group Chat Space: 10 minutes
- Sending Tape of a Session Demonstrating a Recently Learned Skill or Concept and Interacting with the Feedback: 20 minutes
