- Credit Hours: 8 Hours
- Author: Robert Shearer
- Price: $104.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the role and efficacy of group therapy in substance abuse treatment, including its advantages over individual treatment in specific contexts.
• Identify and compare the five types of groups used in substance abuse treatment settings.
• Apply criteria for determining appropriate group placement for individual clients based on their treatment needs and readiness.
• Explain how groups develop through distinct phases and identify the specific tasks associated with each phase.
• Describe the stages of change as they apply to group therapy and explain how group interventions align with each stage.
• Analyze the therapeutic factors that operate within substance abuse treatment groups, including affiliation, confrontation, support, and identification.
• Demonstrate an understanding of interpersonal process groups and their application in resolving relational problems common among clients with substance use disorders.
• Identify common group dynamics and challenges, including resistance, conflict, and scapegoating, and describe strategies for managing them.
• Apply modifications to group therapy approaches to accommodate clients with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
• Explain the training and competencies required for effective group therapy leadership in substance abuse treatment settings.
• Describe how group therapy reduces isolation, fosters positive peer reinforcement, and promotes a culture of recovery.
• Develop strategies for orienting new clients to group therapy and establishing group norms that support recovery.
Package Contents
Course Update
About the Instructor
Robert A. Shearer
Dr. Robert A. Shearer is a retired professor of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychology from Texas A & M University, Commerce. Prior to teaching Criminal Justice, he taught Educational Psychology at Mississippi State University on campus and in the extension program across rural Mississippi during the civil rights era.
He has been teaching, training, consulting and conducting research in the fields of Criminal Justice, human behavior, and addictions for over thirty-six years. He is the author of over sixty professional and refereed articles in Criminal Justice and behavior. He is also the author of Interviewing: Theories, techniques, and practices, 5th edition published by Prentice Hall. Dr. Shearer has also created over a dozen measurement, research, and assessment instruments in Criminal Justice and addictions.
He has been a psychotherapist in private practice and served as a consultant to dozens of local, state, and national agencies. His interests continue to be substance abuse program assessment and evaluation. He has taught courses in interviewing, human behavior, substance abuse counseling, drugs-crime-social policy, assessment and treatment planning, and educational psychology. He has also taught several university level psychology courses in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division, led group therapy in prison, trained group therapists, and served as an expert witness in various courts of law.
He has been the president of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counseling and the editor of the Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling as well as a member of many Criminal Justice, criminology, and counseling professional organizations prior to retirement.
Approved and Widely Recognized
CEU Matrix is approved by the following national and state accreditation boards:
CEU Matrix is approved with the following state boards:
Arkansas (ASACB), California (CCAPP #OS-07-394-0222), California (CADTP #250), Connecticut (#0115-5202), Delaware (DCB #37), Florida (FCB #5141-A), Georgia (ADACBGA #2026-4-003), Illinois (IAODAPCA #19345), Kentucky, Louisiana (LA ADRA #E026), Michigan (MCBAP), Missouri (Missouri CB #183), New Mexico (NMCBBHP #2046), North Carolina (NCSAPPB), Ohio (OCDP #50-19236), Oklahoma (OBLADS #20260153), Texas (TCB #1758-07)
