(5 credits)
Students in this course receive a comprehensive review of counseling approaches to group therapy. The theoretical bases of different approaches to group therapy, including psychoanalytic, existential, person-centered, gestalt, transactional, behavioral, rational-emotive, and reality-therapy are examined. The focus of this course is on counseling of various types of groups, the efficacy of using group therapy as treatment method with multicultural and diverse populations, and the stages of group development.