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Group Counseling (COUN 520)

Term: 2021-2022 - SUMMER SESSION A

Faculty

Elsie Motter

I am a Jamestown native and completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Jamestown in 2001 (Psychology/Criminal Justice).  After college, I spent 10 years in the Bismarck/Mandan area before returning to Jamestown with my husband and kids.

 

I have a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Counseling. I am licensed in North Dakota as a Licensed Addiction Counselor and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and have over 20 years of clinical experience working with youth, adults and families. I also have clinical supervision and administrative experience. 

 

Office hours are available by request.

Melissa Schultz

 

 

Office Hours/Availability/Response Time: Office hrs by appt. Email response time is within 12-24 hours. Response time may be up to 48 hrs over the weekend.  

Chat/Zoom: By appointment only

Bio: I am originally from North Dakota - I attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and received bachelor degrees in psychology and communication. I then received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. In the last year of the Ph.D. program, I completed a full-time, APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. My dissertation is titled "The Effectiveness of a Substance Abuse Treatment Group for At Risk College Students." 

After graduating, I taught full-time at universities in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the Fargo area before deciding to go back into clinical work to get licensed. There were minimal options in North Dakota for someone at a doctoral level to do clinical training so I took a formal postdoc at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. I completed a postdoc and became a licensed psychologist. I then took a job at Miami University in Oxford, OH, where I worked for almost 5 yrs. I mainly did clinical work with college students but also coordinated their prevention programming, eating disorder treatment team, and taught their doctoral students’ assessment. I also taught an undergraduate class in psychology as an adjunct at Miami University.

As both your instructor of this course and the director of the MCC program, my role is to help guide you through the program and ultimately toward your career goals. Please let me know how I can support you, and if there are any concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to me or any other faculty ASAP so we can address them. I look forward to working with each and every one of you!

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Description

Study of group counseling principles appropriate to various counseling settings including schools, treatment centers, and agencies. This course enables students to understand the types of groups, their purpose, development and dynamics, counseling theories, and group counseling methods and skills. Ethical and legal considerations of group counseling are also explored. Students are required to participate in small groups for educational and self-assessment purposes.Prereq: 511. Coreq: 510.