CAPS GROUPS TO BE OFFERED FALL SEMESTER, 2009
For more information call 855-5711. Charges for groups on based on health fee status.
"HEALTHY CONNECTION" GROUPS:
Graduate and Returning Students-Interpersonal
Mondays, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Thursdays, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
The Graduate and Returning Student "Relating to Self & Others" Group is an interpersonal process group. This group will focus on students learning to improve their relationships with others and deepen their understanding of themselves in relationships. The group offers a safe place for members to share honest thoughts and feelings with one another about aspects of their ways of interacting. This is beneficial for those with issues of intimacy, depression, anxiety, or those who wish to develop deeper interpersonal relationships. This is an open ended group and students can join anytime provided there is space available.
Graduate and Returning Students Women's-Interpersonal
Thursdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
This group will focus on women’s issues specifically as they relate to interpersonal and romantic relationships, body image, self-esteem, empowerment, personal growth, and other personal development concerns. Throughout the group experience, women will be encouraged to share their goals and experiences with one another in a safe, confidential, and engaging environment. This group may also benefit women who are struggling with issues of intimacy, depression, anxiety, or those who wish to continue to develop a healthy female identity.
Undergraduates- Interpersonal
Tuesdays, 2:25:3:50 p.m.
Thursdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Often the personal issues that bring us to counseling have more to do with how we relate to others than we think. These groups will help members explore the relationship between their interpersonal style and their emotional well-being. Members will be encouraged to experiment with new behaviors, which can foster more meaningful connections with others and enhance emotional well-being. Participants in past undergraduate therapy groups have said that the following are some of the most helpful aspects of these groups: learning how I come across to others, learning that I’m not the only one with my kind of problems, receiving the support of others who can relate to my problems, learning to express my thoughts and feelings more openly/honestly.
Undergraduate Women- Interpersonal
Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
This group is designed to empower women to gain a greater understanding of themselves and to enhance the way they relate to others. Other issues to explore will include self-esteem, assertiveness, romantic relationships, family perfectionism, and body image. We offer a safe and confidential group to promote growth and we ask that members share their thoughts and feelings as well as a willingness to experiment with new ways of relating to others.
SPECIAL POPULATION/TOPIC GROUPS:
Dissertation Support
Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 p.m. and 3:30-5:00 p.m.
This group will focus on peer and emotional support, goal setting, and anxiety/stress management. This is an open group and students can join anytime provided there is space available.
Eating Concerns Group
Tuesdays, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Are you struggling with food or body image? Join the Eating Concerns & Body Image Group. Our group will provide a safe environment to meet with 5-8 other women who share similar difficulties with body image, binge eating, purging, restricting, laxative use, and over-exercise. Over the semester, this group will explore their eating habits, but also interpersonal difficulties that can contribute to eating problems. An initial consultation is necessary.
Staying Out Of Trouble
Fridays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Have you gotten into to trouble for drinking or drugs? Want to learn how to not get into trouble in the future? Come to this group and we will show you how. It is a simple non-judgmental way to learn control. This is an eight session structured group that you can join any time.
Survivors of Sexual Assault
Fridays, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
This group will meet weekly during the fall semester and is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are survivors of sexual assault. For the purposes of this group, sexual assault is defined as any unwanted and nonconsensual sexual contact. It includes, but is not limited to rape. The purpose of this group is to provide a safe and therapeutic environment to explore some of the common problems associated with surviving a sexual assault. Some objectives of this group are to help group participants share their experience and recognize that they are not alone, understand the current impact of this experience, and begin to work through and resolve feelings associated with their trauma and to make changes. Members may join at any time provided space is available.
Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Mondays, 1:00-2:30 p.m. .
This group is open to undergraduate and graduate women and men who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The aim of this group is to provide a safe and therapeutic environment to explore some of the common problems associated with childhood sexual abuse. Some objectives are to help group participants share their secret and recognize that they are not alone, understand the current impact of this experience, and begin to work through and resolve feelings associated with their trauma.
Anger Management
Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Has you anger gotten you in trouble? Want to do something about that? Try learning anger management! This group will be scheduled when needed. If no group is going we can do this work individually. Don’t wait to set up an intake!
Sobrieity In Action
Wednesdays, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Are you sick and tired of how drinking and drugs are affecting you? Are you ready to stop? Sobriety in Action is here to help you succeed. This is an open ended therapy group that you can join any time. It’s all about learning what works for you in a non-judgmental way.
SKILLS BASED WORKSHOPS:
Relaxation
2 sets of dates (see below)
This three-week group will teach the basics of relaxation techniques and help participants practice them. Limited to 14 participants. First group offered on 9/22, 9/29 and 10/6. Second group offered on 10/21, 10/28 and 11/4.
Coping Skills for College Students
Mondays 3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
This series of workshops will introduce college students to four different sets of coping skills. Each Monday of each month (September through November) we will explore a different set of skills to help students manage their moods, reduce stress, increase confidence and experience a greater sense of emotional well being. The same segments will be repeated each month as follows:
First Monday: Stinkin" Thinkin': How Changing Your Thinking Can Change Your Mood
Second Monday: Improving Your Self-Confidence
Third Monday: Assertiveness: Learning to Ask for What You Need
Fourth Monday: Mindfullness: Finding Peace Through Acceptance of Yourself and Others
No reservations are needed - just stop in. Students can attend as few or as many of the workshops as they like and in any order they desire
Student Success Seminar Series
Thursdays 12-1 p.m. beginning 10/2
Wells Library E174
These 1-hour seminars will be designed to encourage students to think broadly about “success” as a student at Indiana University – Bloomington (IUB). Each of the seven seminars will focus on a different aspect of student success: academic, emotional, vocational, recreational, relational, physical, and spiritual. The seminars will be led by personnel from relevant Student Development and other student-support organizations. These seminars will not only provide students with helpful information, they will also give students a first-hand introduction to some of the offices and resources that are available to help them be successful during their IUB experience.
10/1: Successful Involvement on Campus
Facilitated by Steve Veldkamp – Assistant Dean and Director, IU Student Organizations & Leadership Development
10/8: Forming Successful Relationships
Facilitated by Tim Davis – Psychologist,
IU Counseling & Psychological Services
10/15: Academic Success: Getting Higher Grades
Facilitated by Sharon Chertkoff – Outreach Coordinator, IU Student Academic Center
10/22: Successful Career Planning
Facilitated by Patrick Donahue – Director,
IU Career Development Center
10/29 : Successful Emotional Coping
Facilitated by Tim Davis – Psychologist,
IU Counseling & Psychological Services
11/5: Spiritual Success
Facilitated by Paul Toth – Psychologist,
IU Counseling & Psychological Services
11/12: Exercising for Success
Facilitated by Chris Arvin – Director,
Fitness/Wellness – IU Recreational Sports
11/19: Successful Eating
Facilitated by Bobbi Saccone, RD, CD – dietician and
Elin Grimes, MS, RD, CD - Dietician, IU Health Center
Life Skills Series
First Three Thursdays of each month, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
(During September and November it will be held at CAPS)
(During October it will be held in the Leo R. Dowling International Center, 111 S. Jordan Avenue)
Three practical life skills are addressed in this workshop series. Students will use these skills throughout their whole lives, so they might as well learn them now! The same topics will be covered during the first three Thursdays of each month:
- First Thursday - Conquer Procrastination – We compare A and F students’ use of time and learn specific strategies to address procrastination.
- Second Thursday - Improve Your Relationships Participants learn about different personality styles and how to improve communication with others.
- Third Thursday - Nurture Yourself – Participants learn self-care strategies AND the internal and external barriers to self-care.
Managing Your Emotions
Mondays, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
In the fall of 2009 CAPS will begin offering a series of skills groups that are based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). The goal of these groups is to help participants feel more balanced and in control of their lives. The skills focus on decreasing interpersonal chaos, labile emotions, impulsiveness, and cognitive dysregulation while increasing interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. The groups will be structured into 3 skills training modules; Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation. Each module will consist of 6-8 group sessions.
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