Overview: Same as Week 1, 2 or 3.
Learning Objectives:
- Growth & Healing Strategies: Learn and then demonstrate CRE # D: Transforming Ego-Dystonic Healthy Relational Capacities into Ego Syntonic.
- Group Dynamics: Understand the General Road Map in leading a Group Therapy session.
- Relational Skills: Demonstrate the skills of Containment and Clarification in individual counseling sessions to practice for when you will use them in Group Therapy.
- Review NICC’s Core Competencies & Skills Markers: Review and gain a deeper understanding about Core Competency #15: Mapping and #10 Mismatching along with Skills Markers: Deepening (17.6) and Restructuring (17.9)
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 Retiring/Schizoid 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 Friday
Reading.
- Growth, & Healing Strategies:
- Click here for the 8-page file CRE # D: Transforming Ego-Dystonic Healthy Relational Capacities into Ego Syntonic. There are links you can click on to go deeper into the material. That is your option to take.
- Group Dynamics:
- Click Here for the 10-page file on Difficult Group Members.
- Relational Skills:
- Click here for the 3-page file on Containment.
- Click here for a short 2-page article on Clarification. Click here for a 1-page example of clarification.
- 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 3-page file on Core Competency #15: Mapping. We will adapt these phases to the group process developmental cycle.
- Click here for the 1-page file on Core Competency #10: Mismatching.
- Click here for the 1-page file on the Skill Markers: Deepening (17.6) and Restructuring (17.9)
Videos:
- Click Here for the 15-Minute Video Training by Scott Makin: This has not been created yet.
- Click Here to review one of Scott Makin’s Group Therapy sessions (8-18-21) to see the concepts or skills you learned about in the last couple of weeks.
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.
Virtual Class.
- On the week when there is not a mandatory Virtual Class, you can still attend a 60-minute Virtual Class that the Instructor will make available.
- There will be several elements to this:
- You will have the opportunity to ask questions about this week’s material or past weeks. The primary focus is the class being what you want it to be from the content and the manner of learning it (e.g., didactic, watching tape, etc.)
- The Instructor will then show tape of one of Scott Makin’s group therapy session.
- You can bring tape in for supervision or review a specific concept or skill you were demonstrating.
- If there is time left the instructor will review the above concepts and skills at a deeper level and model some of them or show a specific segment of tape that demonstrates them.
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 Retiring/Schizoid 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 16 minutes
- Preparation Materials
- Reading: 58 minutes (29 pages estimating it will take you 2 minutes per page to read)
- Video Overview of the Week: 15 minutes
- Watch Video of Group Therapy led by Scott Makin: 43 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: 10 minutes
