Overview: Same as Previous Weeks.
Learning Objectives:
- Growth & Healing Strategies: Understand and demonstrate Corrective Emotional Experience #E – Role Playing.
- Group Dynamics: Learn how to facilitate Affirmations and Challenges during the sixth week of group.
- Relation Skill: Comprehend and demonstrate how and when to use this skill: Attuning Observation in the context of group therapy and one-on-one counseling.
- Review NICC Core Competencies and Skills Markers: Review and gain a deeper understanding of Core Competency #8: Imagery.
Optional Learning Objective:
- 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 Capricious/Borderline, how it manifests itself 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 13-page file on CEE #E – Role Playing. There are links you can click on to go deeper into the material. That is your option to take. You only need to know the first 5 pages. The rest is a resource for you on different themes to look for in doing a role-play.
- Group Dynamics:
- Click Here for the 1-page file on Affirmations and Challenges Guidelines.
- Click Here for an example of the file they will use to write out for each person their Affirmations and Challenges.
- Relational Skill:
- Click here for the 6-page file on Attuning Observation.
- 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 about Core Competency #8: Imagery.
Videos.
- Click Here for the 15-Minute Video Training by Scott Makin on this week’s topics.
- Click Here for one of Scott Makin’s therapy sessions (2-24-22). Watch 55 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.
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:
- 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 Capricious/Borderline 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 2-17-22 session.
Time Investment: 2 hours:
- Preparation Materials
- Reading: 42 minutes (21 pages estimating it will take you 2 minutes per page to read)
- Video Overview of the Week by the Instructor: 15 minutes
- Watch Video of Group Therapy led by Scott Makin: 33 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
