• Thorough understanding of options and pregnancy and postpartum stages.
• Cognitive and emotional preparedness for labor, delivery, and parenthood (The Pregnant Adolescent--a Group Approach, 1976).
• Knowledge of prevention for repeat pregnancies.

1. Respect for each participant in the group.
2. Practice and ensure Confidentiality.
3. Limits to Confidentiality - immediate danger to self, duty to warn, and suspected abuse or neglect of a child or elder
4. No misconduct or foul language.
5. Freedom to share or not to share what you wish.

• Stage 1 -  I plan to build relationship and trust between members and myself through portraying empathy, and respect for the participants. Group norms will be established through persistent and consistent enforcement. Limits of confidentiality will be addressed through the opening of each meeting in which these limits will be mentioned to remind individuals and to bring awareness to their limitations.

• Stage 2 - I plan to keep my members working cohesively and productively by introducing collective processes such as games and group discussions over similar experiences. This will help them relate and to better value each other. I will check in with the group to ensure everyone agrees and are on the same page.

• Stage 3 - My plan for group closure is to individually assess members through surverys and to pose group questions that allow willing participants to speak their personal experience with what the group. Upon the ending sessions, I will repeat the importance of keeping confidentiality post group counseling. A post group follow-up will be conducted 6 weeks later to the ending to collaborate on growth and to share possible success stories.

 (2) group counseling, which uses interpersonal, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, behavioral, psychodynamic, and affective methods and strategies to achieve mental, emotional, physical, social, moral, educational, spiritual, and career development and adjustment through the life span;

(e) Regardless of setting, a licensee must provide counseling only in the context of a professional relationship. Prior to providing services, a licensee must obtain from an individual a signed informed consent, signed written receipt of information, or in the case of involuntary treatment a copy of the appropriate court order, including the following:  (1) fees and arrangements for payment;  (2) counseling purposes, goals, and techniques;  (3) any restrictions placed on the license by the Council;  (4) the limits on confidentiality;  (5) any intent of the licensee to use another individual to provide counseling treatment intervention to the client;  (6) supervision of the licensee by another licensed health care professional including the name, address, contact information and qualifications of the supervisor;  (7) the name, address and telephone number of the Council for the purpose of reporting violations of the Act or this chapter; and  (8) the established plan for the custody and control of the client's mental health records in the event of the licensee's death or incapacity, or the termination of the licensee's counseling practice.