Group Process for Psychiatric Nursing

Overview

Course description

This course examines the historical development of groups, selected theoretical bases of group counselling, the basic elements of group structure and process, leadership roles and responsibilities, rights and responsibilities of members, ethical issues and evaluation tools. Experiential group process will provide opportunities to acquire and develop knowledge and skills to participate in and lead selected groups within the practice setting.

Course content

In this course, within the context of the Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing Department’s caring philosophy and conceptual framework, students will focus on developing the psychiatric nursing role and promoting health in clients through an understanding of group process and the acquisition of group skills. Specific concepts that will be addressed are:

1. History and evolution of group treatment processes and theoretical perspectives.

2. Group structure and process.

3. Development of group skills.

4. Phases of group development including group membership roles and leadership styles.

5. Examination of personal attitudes, values, and beliefs.

6. Legal and ethical issues.

Learning activities

It is the intent of the faculty to facilitate student learning through a variety of teaching/learning methods including lecture, demonstration, audio-visual aids, group discussion, group or individual research and presentations and experiential learning as a group member with the intent of facilitating the development of group skills.

Means of assessment

The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.

This is a graded course.

Learning outcomes

In this course the student will use the Psychiatric Nursing Curricular Threads (professionalism, health promotion, and caring), Concepts (crisis, comfort, hope, loss, power, resiliency, integrity) and Variables (psychosocial, physiological, cultural, spiritual, developmental) to integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes related to group structure and process in the development of group skills when caring for individuals across the life span experiencing episodic or ongoing health challenges.

Textbook materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.

Requisites

Prerequisites

PNUR 2440, PNUR 2444

Corequisites

PNUR 2540, PNUR 2544

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

September 2004 (Current)

2003

1999

Course Transfers to Other Institutions

Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.

Institution	Transfer details for PNUR 2541
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

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