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Descriptions of Groups Offered
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.
Alcohol/Drug Awareness
This group provides strategies for achieving healthy choices realted to alcohol and drug use.
Anger Management
This group provides toold to help increase skills in conflict resolution and emotional control.
Dissertation Support Group
This group provides support for graduate students completing their theses. Learn to manage time and tasks, minimize procrastination, reduce anxiety, and achieve greater lifestyle balance.
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.
Finding Your Niche
This group is designed as a support system for new and transfer students who are trying to "settle in" at GW. Discussion issues will be determined by the group but could include adjusting to GW, transferring past experiences and skills to new situations, making friends, and getting involved in campus activities. Students will be able to share their struggles and to hear how others are coping with finding their way at GW.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Support Group
This supportive group is for self-identified gay, lesbian, and bisexual students along with those students who may be questioning their sexuality. The group will focus on relationship issues such as identifying ones needs in a relationship, communicating those needs and navigating relationships in a heterosexist culture. Members will have the opportunity to receive and offer support through shared experience while also challenging the subtle internalized homophobia we hae which hinders our growth, self-esteem and relationships. Issues and feelings, such as excitement, worry, anticipation, loss and empowerment, all related to the ongoing "coming-out" process will be discussed.
Graduate Student Group
Many problems that graduate 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 graduate students who struggle with establishing and/or maintaining satisfying relationships and are subsequently left feeling unhappy, anxious, lonely or empty. Graduate 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.
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.
Living With Loss
What happens when someone you love dies? This will be 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.
Men's Group
This group is designed for men who would like to discuss issues related to men’s roles, awareness and attention, trust, vulnerability, relationships with others, stress, and academics.
Survivors of Unwanted Sexual Contact
This group is for students who are survivors of date rape, acquaintance rape, stranger rape, and other forms of sexual assault or unwanted sexual contact. Whether the unwanted contact occurred in the last few days, weeks, months, or years, this group might be helpful to you. Through the support established with the other women in the group, you will learn to cope with aftermath of the experience and its impact on you and your relationships, and to regain control of your life.
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.
Women's Group
Do you ever wonder about your self-esteem, being unassertive or shy, your body image, your relationships with others, your academics, your feelings, stress, with your role as a woman? This group is designed for women who would like to discuss these issues in a safe and confidential environment. Participants will benefit from getting feedback and support from other women, and they will experience the rewards of supporting others at the same time.
INQUIRIES
If you are interested in any of the groups listed here, please call the Counseling Center at (202) 994-5300 to obtain further information. You will be asked to schedule a free initial consultation to determine if a particular group is recommended for your concerns or if another Center service or referral would be more appropriate. We attempt to form groups comprised of individuals with related concerns and developmental issues.
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