Group Therapy Signature Assignment: Collaborative Counseling Center

The Organization that I decided to choose for my group therapy signature assignment is Collaborative Counseling Center. This organization is a private facility that provides quality outpatient mental health services to children, adolescents, adults and their families. They offer a wide array of mental health services, including Psychiatric Evaluation and Medication Management, ADHD Testing and Treatment, Pharmagenomic Testing, Psychoeducational Assessments, Individual, Group and Family Counseling, Parent Coaching, and Early Intervention and College Counseling for students with Learning Differences. Their mission is working together to inspire change and promote growth.
Collaborative Counseling center has difference therapy groups mainly

Before you actually have a group there are things that one must consider before all the pieces can come together. The first thing that I would do is to consider what kind of group I would like to create because there are so many different type of groups. These are questions that I would consider, Will it be an open or close group or and how I would source the participants for this group. I would then move from there. I think that it is fair to say that Collaborative Counseling Center fulfill those responsibility. The procedure for group therapy may begin after the therapist in private practice, clinics or elsewhere refer their clients for group therapy. Bernard et al ( p 458 ) stated that after initially screening clients for suitability and preparing them for the possibility of group therapy, clinical colleagues refer clients to the group therapist or group therapy program. This is something that I did not find with the counseling center although they said that they had an initial screening intake with everybody and this may have negative consequences for the group process because Bernard et al (p.53) postulated that member selection and screening processes may be done poorly, bringing into the group clients who have a limited capacity to work productively in group

He/She must have certain skills that will help him/her to navigate through group therapy. Schimmel & Jacob (2013) noted clearly that the group leader must have a good knowledge of counseling theories because you can’t do group therapy without having some frame of reference of some theory on which to base your technique/approach after. The leader must be clear on the purpose of why he/she is leading the group and his/her role as the group leader. The group leader must be able to energize the group and make it interesting by say, varying the format for the group sessions. He/ she must set the proper tone for the group by using his/her voice and eyes effectively to ensure that he/she is aware of what is happening with the group. He/she must know how to ask questions that will facilitate meaningful discussion, how to get people to talk and know when to cut people off when they stray from the