Course Description: This course explores in both verbal groups and dance movement therapy groups how the group process allows for more change, growth, and healing than is possible through individual therapy. The student will be taught to become an effective facilitator, and will enhance their knowledge of treatment objectives, plans, and goals, as well as teach them to create a therapeutic container and facilitate dynamics within diverse groups. This will be done through lecture, discussion, assignments, and experiential training groups where the skills are practiced.
Rationale: The ability to lead effective therapy groups depends on the facilitator’s knowledge of group treatment objectives, individualized treatment plans and overarching goals, as well as the facilitator’s skills at creating a therapeutic container and facilitating dynamics within diverse groups. Developing observation and assessment skills directly related to interpersonal dynamics, the capacity to work with transference and countertransference, and social and cultural competence are necessary to hone the clinical skills of group facilitation. Knowledge of Yalom’s, Hubl’s, and Dance Movement Therapy approaches to the group therapeutic process serve to strengthen the ability to support individual and collective growth and recovery. Student will experience a training group during the semester allowing the opportunity to directly experience dynamics as they present themselves in peer group.
3 credit hours / 45 classroom hours- Approved by the ADTA
Fulfills Group DMT theory course requirement
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