SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY 

CPSY 389 

Advanced Group Leadership: 

Winter 2013 

 

Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D., ABMP 

 

GROUP CO-LEADER: Naomi Stoller, LMFT 

Office: 140-H Loyola Hall Office Hours:Tues. 1:30-4:30 

Phone: (408) 554-4012 Class Meetings: Tues 5:30 – 8:30 pm 

 (650) 948-7292 Loyola 131 

E-Mail: jshapiro@scu.edu 

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There will be an all day mandatory Saturday meeting on Feb 9, 2013 9:- 5:30. All other class. 
meetings are Tuesdays 5:30 – 8:30pm. No classes are scheduled for 1/29; 2/12 and 3/12 (this could 
change depending on progress) 

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TEXTS: TEXTS: Yalom Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (latest Edition) 

 

 Shapiro, Peltz & Bernadett-Shapiro Brief Group Treatment (Review book) 

 

 For further reading (optional): Conyne: Oxford Handbook of Group Counseling 

 

 This seminar-style course is designed for a small number of students who wish to learn and practice 
leadership skills in group therapy and counseling settings. It is hoped that each student taking the course 
will have the opportunity to have some "hands-on" group experience. It will be possible for students who 
complete this course to co-lead pre- groups in future terms. 

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: 

1) Participate in a videotaped marathon group session (Feb. 12, 2012). 

 

2) participate in class discussions of this group with regard to leadership issues, co-leadership, and in 
role playing and videotaping in class. 

 

3) Write a 15 - 20 Page Paper (Double spaced). 

 

Using the experience of your pre-group, the Marathon in this class and any additional groups in 
which you have been a member, observer or leader, write an in depth personal account of what you 
learned about yourself and about group process. The paper, should include such material as your 
expectations, goals, feelings, thoughts etc. It should also include changes in these as the group unfolded. 
Include a description of the group process and how it personally affected you (i.e. what was salient for 
your growth? What was deleterious?). Finally, describe the theoretical perspective of the group leader(s) 
and examine how it coincides with your own. What about it worked well or poorly for you? What limitations 
did the leaders have from a personal and theoretical viewpoint? How would you lead a group differently? 
What counter-transference issues would you have to encounter if you were the group leader? As much as 
possible, integrate the readings from CPSY 219 & 389 into your formulations. YOUR PAPER IS DUE 
NO LATER THAN March 5 

 

COURSE GRADE: 50% of the grade will be based on the grade for the paper; 

 50% of the grade will be based on class participation and the application of course 
constructs to our real group. 

 

Readings 

Reading: Try to read as much as possible before the marathon. Please read the Yalom Chapter on 
ATherapeutic Factors@ and Conyne (Brief Groups (on Camino) the first week. In February and March, 
please pick and choose the order for reading other chapters, but read them all. Focus on those that are of 
particular interest for you personally.