COU 6312 - Group Counseling

This course provides in-depth training in group counseling methods including group counselor orientations and behaviors, group theories, principles of group dynamics, group process components, developmental stages of groups, group members’ roles and behaviors, therapeutic factors of group work, and program design and evaluation. Group counseling skills, appropriate selection criteria and methods, as well as leadership approaches, characteristics, and styles are studied. Ethical and legal considerations of group counseling are also explored. Students are required to participate in small groups as members and leaders. Group counseling will highlight a variety of different groups, including children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric group work spanning across diverse cultural experiences and settings

Prerequisite(s): Take COU 6301  or COU 6311