Group Drug Counseling
A 6 hour course designed to help clinicians investing a research-based model of group delivery for drug abusing clients.  Appropriate for both beginners and experienced counselors.  

 Goals/Objectives

By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:

  1. discuss specific group treatment strategies for use in outpatient and aftercare review symptoms of addiction;

  2. explore ways to measure outcome of treatment;

  3. investigate the specific contents of the twelve session Phase I Psychoeducation Groups;

  4. describe the twelve session Phase II Problem Solving groups;

  5. review a brief case management approach that can be used to supplement group sessions;

  6. review the aspects of a family psychoeducational workshop.
     

Your Course Instructors:
Dennis C. Daley
 
Trainer, Author, Clinician

Dennis C. Daley, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Chief of Addiction Medicine Services at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  He oversees a large continuum of care at Addiction Medicine Services (AMS), which includes over twenty-five treatment, prevention and intervention programs, training programs for psychiatric residents, medical students and graduate students in behavioral health.    

Dr. Daley has been or is currently an investigator, trainer and/or consultant on numerous research studies at WPIC sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism related to treatment of individuals with substance use disorders and mood disorders.  He is currently a trainer and consultant on a NIDA sponsored study of bipolar substance abusers at Harvard Medical School (Roger Weiss, MD, PI).  Dr. Daley and colleagues at AMS are currently involved in seven research projects. His research interests are in the areas of addiction, mood disorders and addiction, and adherence to treatment.

For a more detailed biography, as well as any links to Dr. Daley's materials and publications, please visit the faculty page at this link: Faculty Page