Overview: Same as Week 1
- Learning Objectives: These will give you what the focus for this week is. It also spells out what kind of learning we hope happens. There are four major areas to what you will learn each week plus one optional area. Growth and Healing Strategies: how deep, lasting growth and healing happen. Group Dynamics: how they happen in a group context. Relational Skills: how you best facilitate this kind of growth and healing. NICC’s Core Competencies & Skills Markers: You will review NICC because these competencies and skills markers are also key to growth and healing. Psychodynamic Understanding of Personality and Personality Styles: where change occurs and how to identify the unique pathway it must follow.
- Optional Learning Objectives and Optional Preparation Materials: We know how busy MCO clinicians are. But we know you also love to learn as much as possible. We have put these in there to give you the option to learn this material at the deepest possible level. You choose how much time you want to invest in this course and your level of learning.
- Preparation Materials: We have listed in one place all the various readings, PowerPoints, videos, websites, etc. that you will review for the Learning Activities you will engage in this week. We hope this makes it simple to know the place that has all you need to prepare for the 2 major learning activities you will complete each week.
- Time Investment: We have estimated the time each preparation material and learning activity will take so you know how much time to make room for in your schedule. We estimate an average of two hours and 15 minutes a week. Use this as a way to put into your schedule when you can work on these preparation materials and learning activities. We have found a little planning like this makes use of your time more efficient which in turn enhances your learning.
- Learning Activities #1 and #2. These are the next two parts of week 1. Click on the “T” in the drop-down menu on the right that is labeled Learning Activity #1 and Learning Activity #2. They are listed right below this general overview.
Learning Objectives:
- Growth & Healing Strategies: Learn about Change Strategy #2: Corrective Emotional Experiences (CEEs). Then comprehend and demonstrate one of the 8 categories of Corrective Emotional Experiences: CEE #C: Ego Strengthening.
- Group Dynamics: Understand the general road map of how to facilitate a typical session in group therapy.
- Relational Skill: Understand and then demonstrate the skill of Heightening in individual counseling sessions to practice for when you will use it in Group Therapy.
- Review NICC’s Core Competencies & Skills Markers: Review and gain a deeper understanding of Core Competency #5: Thrive Drive and #6 Go with Good along with Skills Markers: Heightening (7.5); Deepening (17.6); Validating (17.7).
Optional Learning Objective:
- Psychodynamic Understanding of Personality and Personality Styles: Looking at these more difficult personality structures will enhance your “diagnostic skills” in identifying which domain of character structure is most in deficit. You will be able to see more clearly the underlying issues as they arise in what the person is sharing in the group. You also will learn more deeply about the intra-psychic structure that exists in each person. This will help you identify what needs to be changed so you focus on the type of interventions (e.g. Corrective Emotional & Relational Experiences) more accurately. You will facilitate different kinds of experiences for a histrionic personality style than a narcissistic personality style. 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 Shy/Avoidant Personality Disorder, how it manifests itself in the group, and what types of CEEs and other interventions are needed for growth and healing.
Preparation Materials to Review by the Virtual Class
Reading:
- Growth & Healing Strategies:
- Click here for the 3-page file called CEE Introduction. This will introduce you to what a Corrective Relational Experience is and some general principles for creating one, and how it heals. There are links you can click on to go deeper into the material. That is your option to take.
- Click here for the file that lists all the 8 categories of Corrective Relational Experiences. Only read CRE #C: Ego Strengthening (pages 7-9). There are links you can click on to go deeper into the material. That is your option to take.
- Skill:
- Click Here for the 6-page file on Heightening.
- Group Dynamics:
- Click here for the 1-page file on General Road Map in leading a Group Therapy session. This will help you see an overall strategy for creating growth in a therapy group.
- Review NICC’s Core Competencies & Skills Markers:
- Click here for the 2-page file on NICC’s Core Competencies #5: Thrive Drive and #6: Go With Good.
- Click here for the 1-page file on the Skill Markers: Heightening (7.5); Deepening (17.6); Validating (17.7)
Video:
- Click here for the second session of an MCO therapy group led by Scott Makin. At least watch 24 minutes of any part you want.
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.
- Psychodynamic Understanding of Personality and Personality Styles:
- Click Here for the file on the different interpersonal coping styles (i.e., personality styles). Just focus on the Shy/Avoidant personality structure. There will be a link to Theodore Millon’s website that goes in greater depth on understanding 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.
- You always have the option of looking at additional tapes of Scott Makin’s Group Therapy sessions to see the concepts or skills you are learning about. Click Here for the 2-3-22 session.
Time Investment: 2 hours and 10 minutes
- Preparation Materials
- Reading: 30 minutes (15 pages estimating it will take you 2 minutes per page to read)
- Watching the video of a Group Therapy session led by Scott Makin: 20 minutes
- Learning Activities
- Virtual Class: 60 minutes
- Posting in Group Chat Space: 10 minutes
- Sending Tape of a Session Demonstrating a Recently Learned Skill or Concept and Interacting with the Feedback: 10 minutes
