Learning to Cope With Major Distress by

Learning to Cope With Major Distress

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:06:11 UTC

This Group will be mainly focused on students ranging from 18 - 22 years old who are struggling to adapt to adulthood and college life. Main symptoms would include high levels of stress, poor grades, social isolation, and depressive mood.

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:09:13 UTC

Mindset:

M 2. Sense of acceptance, respect, support, and inclusion for self and others in the school environment.

Behaviors:

B-SMS 6. Ability to identify and overcome barriers.

B-SMS 7. Effective coping skills.

B-SMS 10. Ability to manage transitions and adapt to change.

B. SS-1. Effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills.

B-SS 3. Positive relationship with adults to support success.

Publicity Plans

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:09:30 UTC

Flyers will be provided around campus explaining the main goal for this group. First year students will be provided with information on their first class by email from the administration office.

Pre-Group Interview and Screening

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:11:43 UTC

A flier will be developed to advertise the group within the campus for students who are currently struggle to adapt to change, causing high levels of distress. The main population will be focus with students around the age of 18-22 who are new to adulthood and college life. Every freshman will be highly encourage to attend to this group by providing the fliers to every freshman in campus.

Before the first session, students will be completing a GAD-& anxiety assessment, which is a self-report questionnaire that screens for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and will be assess depending on their scores. In addition to this, the same assessment will be provided at the last session in order to assess if goals have been accomplished.

Informed Consent

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:11:56 UTC

A consent form will be provided and needed to be signed prior to the group. The consent from will explain with group therapy is, confidentiality, conduct and relationship, and what to expect. If the student is a minor, the consent form will need to be signed by their legal authorize guardian.

Legal Requirements

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:12:12 UTC

_{The Texas Administrative Code outlines the requirement for a certified professional school counselor.}

_{Standard 2 of section239.15 states the certified school counselor must counsel individuals and small groups using appropriate counseling theories and techniques in response to students' needs as outlined in the}_{Teas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs.}

Group Rules

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:13:14 UTC

Students will have the opportunity to set ground rules where everyone will be in the same page. Students will fill out this document and share their thoughts and opinions about each rule and explain their reasoning.

Non-Negotiation Rules

Always respect towards each student and confusability.

Violation to Rules

Students that violated rules will be removed from the group.

Group Dynamics

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:13:25 UTC

Stage 1 – building trust is one of the most important factors in group counseling. We will be building relationships and trust withing the group by making it clear what the purpose for this group is. Ground rules will be clear and provided in the consent form as well.

Stage 2 – Each session will contain activities that every student will complete and share with the group. Each session will have a contain a specific topic as expressed in the “Group Action”, then, each student will be able to provide the desire outcome of each session that relates to the main goal.

Stage 3 – Before and after every session, students will have the ability to share thoughts, opinions, and feelings regarding their progress and the group. In addition to this, every session will have a reminder of confidentiality and trust within the students. A follow-up plan will be developed on the last session. The follow-up plan will consist of the safety crisis plan mentioned in the group action plan, as well as local resource in the communities, such as mental health clinic, psychiatrists, and psychiatrist hospitals.

Leadership Styles

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:13:55 UTC

Transformational leadership is the adequate leadership style for this group. We will be working towards change and vision by providing a guide through inspiration and motivation. We will rely on high levels of communication to manage and regulate students’ needs. Lastly, we will be working as a group to remain motivated by delegating smaller tasks assigned by the leader to make the vision a reality.

This leadership style provides intellectual stimulation, individual consideration, inspirational motivation and idealized influences. Thus, we will focus on student's needs, motivation, ethical framework for decisions, and interpersonal evolution.

Therapeutic Factors

toviasrraul — 2024-09-13 18:14:10 UTC

Development of socializing techniques; will be able to improve adaptive and effective communication and enhanced social skills.

Imitative behavior: due to the nature of the group, members may gain skills from one another and adapt healthy coping mechanisms to model their own behaviors adapting them to their own experience.

Ethical Requirements

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References

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