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Group Counseling for Students: A Complete Framework for Building Healthy Relationships in School and Life

Group Counseling for Students: A Complete Framework for Building Healthy Relationships in School and Life

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Large caseloads, lack of time, an overwhelming number of students who struggle to form positive relationships...

Sound familiar? You’re in good company!

Many of the kids who need intervention the most are challenging to work with and seemingly resistant to intervention. And then there’s TIME... there’s never enough of that.

That’s why Dr. Jennifer Rogers, LPC, school counselor, researcher, consultant, and author, created this one-of-a-kind training that will leave you with the tools you need to immediately expand your impact on students without stretching your schedule any further. You’ll finish with:

  • Step-by-step guidance to address peer-rejection, externalizing behaviors, trouble working with others, and more in 3rd – 6th graders
  • Concrete strategies for effective and efficient caseload management
  • TONS of ready-to-go experiential skill-building activities, such as “Who’s on your team?” and the “Nuclear Waste Activity”
  • Group engagement strategies that work with the most reluctant students
  • A complete, flexible curriculum and video demonstrations for each activity!

Gain the skills you need to expand your impact across the tiers of intervention without further stretching your schedule! Purchase today!

Here's What You'll Learn


Group Work with Students: A to Z

  • Why group counseling with children?
  • Research and outcomes
  • Applicability in schools: Making group counseling a priority
  • Build prosocial skills: A post-pandemic necessity
  • Must-know ethical guidelines
  • MTSS Framework: Fitting in with district planning
  • History of this intervention: Experiential learning and findings of the original study
  • The Framework: Assess, Design, Practice, Evaluate
  • Assess: Data-Driven Intervention
  • Who are your participants? Screening and selection of students
  • Assessments to target skill development
  • Session planning: Time, resources, duration
  • Skill matching for group intervention
  • Quick & easy differentiation
  • Special populations: evidence-based practice
  • Trauma-informed group leadership
  • Interactive case studies

Design: Intervention Activities
Ready-to-use resources: Curriculum overview

  • How to use the handbook and digital resources to create group sessions based on your unique student groups
  • Intervention categories and activity demonstrations:
    • Expressive arts
      • Who is on your team?
      • Writing your own empathy story
    • Journal writing
      • Identify feelings
      • Caring about others: letter to a younger person
    • Experiential activities
      • Nuclear Waste Activity: Sharing Ideas
      • Sticky situations: Problem solving to stick up for yourself
      • High low problem-solving game
    • Cooperative learning activities
      • Learning how to compliment
      • Steps to compromise – Meet in the middle
    • Discussion worksheet activities
      • Conflicted emotions
      • Choosing friends to be on your support team
    • Group relational tasks
      • EF skills when challenged
      • Impact of your behavior: group discussion and challenge
    • Hands-on learning experiences

Practice: Skill Acquisition
Complete Session Demonstration: Start to finish

  • Introductory activities: Setting up for success
  • 3 must-use engagement strategies
  • Practice: Prosocial skills
    • Understand others’ feelings
    • Sharing
    • Being helpful
    • Empathy
    • Kindness
  • Practice: Peer Relational Skills
    • Friendship
    • Get along with others
    • Stand up for yourself
    • Cooperation
    • Work with peers
  • Step-by-step guidance: Oppositional and avoidant behaviors in sessions
  • Closing activities: Setting students up for successful termination of group

Evaluation Practices

  • What are the outcomes of your interventions?
  • Pre- and post-test: Options for evaluation of outcomes
  • Student voice: Journal review and letter to self

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Digital Seminar
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Meet Your Experts


Jennifer E. Rogers, PhD, LPC

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Jennifer Rogers, PhD, LPC, has worked in and for schools for over 20 years. In addition to practicing as a licensed professional counselor, she currently owns Rogers Training Solutions, LLC, which focuses on training districts, schools, and individuals to institute sustainable measures to support the social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs of students and educators. In this role, she works with mental health staff to develop individualized programs that are data driven and grounded in evidence-based practices, provides training on MTSS, group counseling, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

Jennifer has authored numerous articles and books on evidence-based school counseling practices and the implementation of social emotional learning in schools. She is also the author of the curriculum PLAY Group Prosocial Peer Relational Learning Activities for Youth: Group Counseling Interventions in School Settings.

Jennifer is a passionate and engaging presenter and is appreciated for equipping course participants with a wealth of ready-to-implement strategies and resources.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Rogers is the founder of Rogers Training Solutions and has employment relationships with the Florida Atlantic University and Rogers Counseling Services. She receives royalties as a published author. Jennifer Rogers receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Rogers is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American School Counselor Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059949
Duration:
6 hours, 7 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 06, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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