Feeling Good Group

Course Description

Program: Personal Development Program
Length: Eight Sessions
Time: One and a half-hours once a week

Rationale

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that it is mainly your thoughts and attitudes – and not external events that create your moods. Negative thoughts often lead to unhealthy emotions such as depression, anxiety, and irrational anger. When you learn to challenge your negative thinking and substitute with thoughts that are more positive and realistic, you can change the way you feel.

Objectives

This psychoeducational group uses a cognitive approach to help participants identify and learn to challenge thoughts that may be negatively affecting their moods, self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living. Utilizing lectures, self-monitoring, group discussion, and homework assignments, participants will learn a variety of skills and techniques to help modify negative patterns and gain insight into self-defeating beliefs and attitudes.