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
- Expressive arts
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


