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Group Therapy

What is a Group Therapy?

Group therapy generally consists of six to ten people meeting with a trained therapist to talk about issues that they may be struggling with. Members share their feelings and gain insight about their problems from other group members who may be having similar struggles. Emotional support in the form of group therapy can be an invaluable experience.

Below are some of the groups currently offered at Behavioral Associates.

Behavioral Management Group for Parents

This group is based on Parent Management Training, an empirically supported treatment protocol designed to educate parents on managing their child’s behavior at home and in school. The group is designed to facilitate learning as well as provide an environment of support.

Teen’s Group

At the Teen’s Group, adolescents can safely express themselves among peers and are given a multitude of tools to help cope with their problems. Topics include:

Coping skills
Emotional expression
Communication
Social skills
Relationships
Healthy habits
Problem solving
Impulse control

Adult Skills Training Group

Our Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) adult skills training group is a skills-based treatment that consists of 4 modules that are covered over a period of 24 weeks. The skills training group meets on a weekly basis for an hour and a half.

First module: Mindfulness
Second module: Emotion Regulation
Third module: Distress Tolerance
Fourth module: Interpersonal Effectiveness

Adolescents Skills Training Group

DBT is an evidence-based treatment for adolescents who are struggling with emotion dysregulation, identity confusion, intense anxiety, depression, anger, difficulties in interpersonal relationships, impulsive behaviors, eating disorders, substance abuse, and teen-parent or family conflict.

Adolescents and their parents attend skills training group on a weekly basis for an hour and a half. Once a month, both parents and adolescents attend a multi-family skills training group. The curriculum consists of five modules:

First module: Mindfulness
Second module: Emotion Regulation
Third module: Distress Tolerance
Fourth module: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Fifth module: Walking the Middle Path