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Module 6: Group Mastery: Skillful Approaches for Engaging Challenging Situations

Course
Virtual
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical
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Location

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Description

In this module, we address challenges that commonly occur in large and small groups. We’ll explore several creative strategies for flowing with challenges that commonly arise. Participants will explore several challenging scenarios that are common to group work and gain practical tools for super-charging group processes.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge and skills for engaging groups.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe 2 practical strategies to help create a group culture that supports healing.

  • Identify 2 practical strategies for implementing group ritual.

  • Describe 2 ways to turn resistance into an ally.

  • List 2 ways to identify the shadow of a group and explain how you can work with it.

  • Describe 3 strategies for effectively neutralizing an acting-out client.

  • Describe 2 strategies to engage a disengaged client.

  • Identify 2 ways a clinician can avoid falling into an authoritative role.

References
  • Burris, C. (2022). Creating Healing Circles: Using the Internal Family Systems Model in Facilitating Groups. B.C. Publishers.

  • Curran, L. (2013). 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises, and Assignments to Move the Clinet and Therapy Forward. Premier Publishing & Media.

  • Mischke-Reeds, M. (2019). Somative Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercies to Treat Trauma & Stress. PESI.

  • Some, M.P. (1997). Ritual: Power, Healing and Community. Compass Books.

  • Velasquez, M., Crouch, C., et al. (2015) Group Treatment for Substance Abuse, A Stages-of-Change Therapy Manual (2nd Edition). The Guildford Press.

  • Yalom, I. & Leszcz, M. (2020) The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Basic Books.

Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 General continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Greg Liotta

Greg Liotta, LMSW, has 30+ years of post-masters experience as an addictions counselor, Intergroup Dialogue facilitator (cultural sensitivity), men’s work leader, and somatic experiential retreat leader. His foundation is built on a deep commitment to his personal, emotional, and spiritual development as a platform for offering high-quality service. Greg’s clinical approach is heavily influenced by Gabor Mate’, Dr. Bessel von der Kolk, Ron Kurtz, Janina Fisher, Peter Levine, and other luminaries in the field of healing trauma. He is also certified in HRV technology, HeartMath (the connection between the brain, nervous system, and the human heart), and Polyvagal clinical applications. Greg is certified to administer Dr. Porges’ Safe & Sound Protocol and holds a Certificate in Jan Winhall’s Felt-Sense Polyvagal Approach to Treating Addiction. He is a Certified Experiential Facilitator with a grounding in somatic healing modalities, incorporating sensorimotor psychotherapy, Hakomi approaches, psychodrama, bio-energetics, and IFS. Along with his favorite person in the whole world, Jon Snow (Boxer-mix), he designs and facilitates quality trauma-sensitive experiential retreats for those suffering from addictions and complex trauma.

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