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 HLSC 100

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