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Groups
Academic Progress Group
This group offers problem-solving support for students who are unhappy with their motivation and academic achievement at GW. Participants will be asked to commit to a behavioral contract to attend all classes and group meetings, to maintain an academic calendar, and to complete assignments on time. Participants will work
together to identify their concerns and to establish obtainable goals.
Anger Management Group
This is a six-session psycho-educational group for people who want to learn how to better control their anger. Anger is a normal response to many situations but for some, it becomes problematic and can lead to problems with communication, interfere in romantic and family relationships and can also lead to academic and work problems. This group will help students manage their anger better, as well as, develop better self-control of both thoughts and actions. This group also gives the students the opportunity to help and receive support from other students have similar issues with managing anger.
Emotion Management Group
This group is for students who have trouble regulating their emotions and want to learn ways to gain more control of these emotions. This group will teach skills in Mindfulness, which is a strategy to increase awareness and self control. The group will help students attain personal goals in interpersonal situations while enhancing self-respect and overall quality of relationships. Overall, the student will leave the group with strategies to understand and manage emotions in effective, non-harmful ways.
The Disordered Eating and Body Image Group
The Disordered Eating and Body Image Group is a support group designed for individuals who struggle with issues related to eating and/or body image to meet in a safe space and received support receiving the support from peers facing similar challenges. Individuals who have body image issues, over exercise, obsess about food and weight loss, overeat, binge, purge, or restrict food are welcome in this group. The focus is on learning healthy coping strategies for managing the daily stressors, develop insight into your eating behavior, challenging negative thoughts about food, weight and body, creating and fostering body acceptance, and strengthening your self-esteem.
Dissertation Support Group
Completing a dissertation can be a stressful process and it is often difficult to complete when attending of other areas of your life. This group can be helpful for graduate students who need help keeping motivated and “on task” with their dissertation process. Topics typically discussed include procrastination, writing blocks, perfectionism, time management, confidence issues and conflicts with peers and professors.
Family Stress
This group is designed for students whose families have been affected by alcoholism, mental illness, divorce, or intense conflict resulting in communication and relationship problems. The group will help participants identify ways in which patterns, once adaptive in their families, can pose problems in current relationships. Core issues related to trust, control, attention to personal needs, expression of feelings, over-responsibility, and self-esteem will be explored. Participants will develop greater self-acceptance and learn new coping strategies.
Graduate Student Process Group
This group will include discussions about general stressors that typical graduate students deal with at GWU. This may include finding a balance between academic, family and social life, as well as, developing coping strategies when times are stressful. The group also provides a unique opportunity for honest interpersonal exploration, allowing one to learn how to build more rewarding relationships in life.
LGBTQ Support Group
This group provides a supportive environment to explore issues pertinent to the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning students. Members are free to talk about what's on their minds and can explore a variety of topics (in addition to sexual identity) including family and other interpersonal relationships, academics, and coping with intolerance.
Living with Loss
This is a supportive group for those who have experienced the death of a family member or close friend. In talking with each other, group members will have the opportunity to explore their reactions to their experiences, changes in themselves, and the effects of their loss on relationships with friends and family. Also considered will be different ways of coping with grief and loss, and moving forward with life once someone special has gone.
Rethinking Your Drinking
This group provides strategies for achieving healthy choices related to alcohol consumption. The UCC offers a 5 session psycho-educational/treatment group based on group motivational interviewing research with college students.
Seniors in Transition Group
This time-limited dynamic group program is to help graduating seniors prepare for the next phase of their lives. Graduation is both a time for anxiety and excitement. The next step - from college to grad school, job - may seem even bigger and scarier. This confidential group will address ways to gain perspective on the unknown, use the skills you have already acquired, and prepared emotionally and behaviorally for the change.
Sexual Assault Survivor Support Group
This group will provide survivors with a safe environment for gaining support, sharing stories, coping with the aftermath of assault, and understanding how their experiences impact current functioning and relationships.
Student of Color Support Group
This is a group for identifiable students of color to come and garner support from one another and discuss concerns they have adjusting to being on a predominantly White campus.
Undergraduate Interpersonal Growth Group
Many problems that students experience have some basis in their interpersonal relationships (i.e., friends, family, and relationship partners). Each person, at one time or another, needs to learn to cope with the changing levels of intimacy in each of these relationships. This group is for students who struggle with establishing and/or maintaining satisfying relationships and are subsequently left feeling unhappy, anxious, lonely or empty. Students can use the interpersonal interaction of the group to learn about themselves, identify and expand their own interpersonal patterns, try new behaviors and clarify confusing feelings all within a supportive yet challenging and growth producing atmosphere.
If you are interested in any of the above groups and you want to get more information please contact us by phone at 202.994.5300.
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