Helping People Change: The Power of Group Work
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Groups help create community to combat loneliness and isolation and increase connection and productivity at work, within health care, and in personal relationships.
This online program will provide an integrated approach and an indispensable toolbox for bringing thoughtful, nurturing, empowering practice and strategy to relationships of all kinds through the facilitation of group work.
The assets of group work, beyond cost-effectiveness and reduced isolation for patients and group leaders alike, can be utilized in many situations: teaching, team meetings, retreats, psychoeducational issues in healthcare, workshops, community gatherings, business settings, sports teams, counseling, religious organizations, and psychotherapy.
The combination of cognitive and experiential learning in this program will leave you with a solid understanding, skill, and commitment to initiate group work practice in your professional, personal, and interpersonal settings.
You will become aware of your own responses to your clients, patients, students, colleagues, friends, and family, and improve your ability to regulate your affect with thought and sound judgment.
You will also see the role humor plays in facilitating group work and its connecting force of cohesiveness.
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About Helping People Change: The Power of Group Work
Through participating in this online professional development program, you’ll be able to apply the concepts below to your professional, personal, and interpersonal life.
- Learn to value humor as a serious coping mechanism to offer to patients, clients, colleagues, and community members to utilize in creating openness and lowering anxiety
- Gain insight into therapeutic or curative factors that make groups work, such as universality, catharsis, altruism, socializing, humor, and hope
- Become aware of personal issues and biases, such as countertransference, that may interfere in your role as a group leader
- Gain appreciation for the power of skilled and intimate group work in team and professional settings, and with patients and their families to connect, motivate, and change behaviors
- Predict, normalize, and handle challenges in facilitating groups (ex., anger, apathy)
- Experience the effectiveness of groups as a group leader, group member, and group observer
- Understand how group work lessens isolation and loneliness in aspects of difficult times
- Spark or reinforce your interest or skill in facilitating or participating in group work
- Hospice care providers
- Administrators in healthcare and education
- Physicians, nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, diabetes educators
- Community groups, clergy, and religious organizations
- Mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists
- Healthcare professionals focused on helping patients change their behavior through group work
- Business professionals who wish to create better teamwork with emphasis on humor as a coping skill
- Anyone interested in leading or facilitating group work
Wendy Rapaport, LCSW, MSW, Psy.D.
University of Miami School of Medicine Diabetes Research Institute and UMaine School of Social Work Faculty
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