Catalog 2021-2022 
    
    May 01, 2024  
Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BHAV 210 Group Work

5 credits
Students will learn to enhance the effectiveness of workplace groups by examining a variety of roles, models, and norms of group work. Students will develop therapeutic group leadership skills through facilitation of simulated group sessions.

Prerequisites: BHAV 110  or admission to the BAS in Behavioral Healthcare

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Identify groups they may be members of as behavioral health and social service employees
  • Address issues that can diminish the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary team
  • Explain the purposes and benefits of client groups in behavioral health and social services
  • Conceptualize and plan new mutual-aid, activity, educational, or task groups
  • Develop and sustain working alliances and therapeutic relationships with clients
  • Attend to the interpersonal dynamics that both strengthen and potentially threaten the working alliance
  • Select interventions appropriate to the beginning, middle, and endings of groups

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

  • transfer to baccalaureate degree programs
  • facilitate client groups and effectively resolve conflicts

Global Outcomes
This course teaches to the global outcome of teamwork.

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50