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Group Counseling Sessions available for students at Celina High
School
If you are interesting in joining one of our groups please email me your name, grade level, and
the group(s) you are interested in and I will get back to you on days/times/availability. You may also fill out the
information on the group counseling form and place it in my drop box located just inside the main office. (Forms are
located by the drop box.)
Due to the number of groups offered not all groups will be available at all times.
Groups will consist of 4-8 members and will last from 4-8 weeks depending on the group.
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SALVAGING SISTERHOOD
This group is designed to teach relationally aggressive girls to develop empathy and develop a strong sense of self.
Designed to lessen the incidence of gossip and backstabbing and teach girls how to be positive leaders and role models.
TEEN PARENT SUPPORT GROUP
This group is designed to offer support and information
useful to teens who have children or are expectant parents. It will be a great place to share and discuss parenting
tips, struggles of being a teenage parent as well as solutions to overcoming obstacles.
GRIEVING
STUDENTS
This group is designed for students who have lost someone close to them. This will be a
safe place to share feelings as we work through the stages of grief.
DEALING WITH DIVORCE
This group is designed for students whose parents are divorced or are going through a divorce. We will discuss
topics of feelings involved with divorce, new living arrangements, step-parents, step-siblings, etc
ASSERTION
SKILLS
This group is designed to help students discriminate among nonassertive, assertive, and aggressive
communication styles. To communicate the idea that people have certain personal rights and that these rights form the
basis for assertive behavior. This group will provide opportunities to discuss and practice assertion skill to aid in
using assertion skills in appropriate situations outside the group.
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STRESS MANAGEMENT
This group is designed to promote an understanding of the stress response
and individual stressors. We will learn techniques for managing stress through progressive muscle relaxation, guided
imagery, and positive coping statements.
SELF-ESTEEM
This group is designed
to encourage students to become more aware of their perceptions of themselves and to help them let go of unrealistic or perfectionistic
demands of themselves
SCHOOL SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS
This group is designed
to help students learn how to better manage their time, set goals, learn more effective classroom and study skills as well
as manage test anxiety, and negative peer pressure and destructive influences.
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ANGER MANAGEMENT
This group is designed for chronically angry teens. Strategies to help reduce anger and seek more positive solutions.
ADD/ADHD SUPPORT GROUP
This group is designed to help students find strategies to
help them improve their academic and social/emotional abilities.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SUPPORT GROUP
This group is designed to be a source of support and encouragement for those students battling addictions
to alcohol or drugs. This is not to be used in replacement of a alateen, AA, or NA but it will introduce the twelve
step program.
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
This group is designed to provide necessary
financial skills to students as they prepare to leave home and become financially independent. It will discuss the importance
of maintaining good credit, the pitfalls of credit cards, loans, etc. We will also discuss how to make a realistic budget
for housing, utilities, transportation, etc. and what it will take to become truly financially independent. The goal
of this group is to become more financial saavy and better prepared financially to live on their own.
MEETING, MAKING, AND KEEPING FRIENDS
This group is designed to encourage understanding of what
it means to be a friend and to have friends, to deal with positive and negative feelings in friendship situations. Students
will also be encouraged to seek out new friends and understand the "clique phenomenon."
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