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BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Counseling Center |
| Group Counseling |
Group counseling at the University Counseling Center involves a small number of individuals working together on common problems or concerns. Typically, these groups meet for one and a half hours each week and are led by one or two staff counselors. Counseling groups may focus on a particular issue (e.g., exam anxiety or relationship issues) or they can be less structured sessions that explore broader issues or student concerns.
Groups are offered throughout the academic year. Group listing is updated each semester. Further information regarding group topics, group leaders, and schedules may be acquired by contacting the University Counseling Center (777-2772). The following is a list of the kinds of groups that the Counseling Center may conduct:
Bereavement Group
This group is composed of students who have
had a family member or close friend die and are struggling with the emotional
difficulties surrounding that death. Students in this group receive the
caring support of other students experiencing similar losses.
Interpersonal Group
This is a group which addresses issues of interpersonal relationships. A wide spectrum of concerns will be covered: trust, intimacy, isolation, relating to others, relating to groups, and loneliness.
Insight & Healing Through Storytelling
A new kind of therapy group which explores life-issues through the sharing of life-stories.
Mission Meltaway
Mission Meltaway is a FREE 8 week "Jump Start" weight loss program that supports a team approach to healthy eating and increased physical activity. Meetings will cover a wide range of topics including menu planning, nutrition, physical activity, and behavior modification. We will provide all participants with a comparison of before and after physical assessments such as blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and weight.
Eating Awareness Group
A therapy group focusing on compulsive eating
problems such as: restrictive eating, bingeing and purging, and overeating.
The group will focus on how eating functions to reduce stress and distress.
By addressing these concerns more directly, such "compulsive" eating can
drop away.
Finding Your Path
Non-traditional workshop sessions aimed at
assisting students in negotiating the "rites of passage" of young adulthood
and at initiating relationships with crucial life tasks, world arenas,
and dimensions of self. Some of the issues addressed:
| Love and Sex | Negative Emotions |
| Parents and Mentors | Self-Empowerment |
| Calling and Character | Freedom and Choice |
| Self and Others | Power |
Food For Thought
A five-week workshop designed to explore
the personal and social attitudes and behaviors that shape our eating.
Sessions will include lecture presentation and discussion time.
Men's Group: "Finding a Heroic Path"
A group to assist men in defining and forging
meaningful life directions; explore sacred aspects of relations, careers,
and self; and self-awareness will be cultivated through exploration of
differences.
Resolving Sexual Abuse
This group will focus on working through
current issues as well as changing the impact of the abusive experience
on you. The group intends to take you past seeing life through the
lens of trauma, which has robbed you of the ability to experience joy and
hope for the future.
Male Graduate Student Support Group
This group invites men graduate students
who are struggling with marital or relationship issues, interpersonal conflicts,
performance anxieties, professional objectives, and completion of research
or dissertation/thesis.
Contact the Counseling Center to see if one of these groups is for you.
For more information contact the Binghamton University
Counseling Center.
1202 Library North
Phone: 777-2772
