The book chapters we will review in this discussion are published by SAMSHA and are from the book titled, Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 41. Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy (2005). This book is a great resource to keep handy as a counselor. You may want to create a “Counseling Resources” folder in your bookmarks bar to save these and other resources you acquire throughout your graduate studies. At the end of your program, you will have a nice toolbox of counseling resources.  

Thread: For this Discussion, read the two following articles from SAMSHA (2005 a & b)

Types of Groups Commonly Used in Substance Abuse Treatment (Links to an external site.)

Group Leadership, Concepts, and Techniques (Links to an external site.)

In your initial post of at least 300 words, respond to the following:   

• from Article #1 above, share which two groups you found most interesting and explain why,
• from Article #2 above, share two ways you can incorporate the information from the article as a group member into the two groups in this course (weekly Discussion and the weekly Research Discussion),
• share at least one personal thought, personal experience, or personal reaction you had from the articles