Anger Management
Learn how to express anger successfully (without scaring others), make yourself heard (without the headache) and master self control (without over-heating) in six meetings.
Date and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Learn to manage anger
- Stop violence or the threat of violence
- Develop self-control over thoughts and actions
- Improve capacity to generate and receive support from peers experiencing similar difficulties managing anger
Asian American Graduate Support
Asian American Masters or Ph.D. candidates can join this group to enhance personal and professional development as Asian Americans in higher education. Members focus on advancing their personal and graduate program goals and on making inside/outside preparations for stepping into the professional, multicultural world.
Date and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Receive support for managing graduate school expectations
Practice communication, networking, and other career related skills
- Build self-esteem
- Manage acculturation, negative stereotyping, prejudice and other issues
- Enhance relationship skills with peers superiors, partners and parents
Asian American Self Esteem
Are you an Asian American undergraduate wanting to learn about yourself and improve self-esteem? Our group members discuss a variety of topics to enhance self-esteem: identity, cultural issues, family relationships, dating, social skills, coping strategies, motivation and achievement.
Date and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Learn more about yourself
- Build self-esteem and self-confidence
- Connect with others
- Learn communication, assertiveness, and other social skills
- Manage academic expectations
Cognitive Therapy for Insomnia
Sleep - its essential to your health! This group will employ cognitive behavioral therapy, which is a proven non-drug treatment for insomnia, to help you improve the quality and efficiency of your sleep. Learn new way of thinking that will not only improve your quality of sleep but also help you to reduce your level of stress, fall asleep faster, and sleep more soundly.
Date and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Dispel some common myths about sleep
- Specify factors contributing to poor sleep
- Apply specific strategies to fall asleep faster and sleep more soundly
Disordered Eating: Group I
Develop skills for creating a healthier lifestyle, challenging destructive behaviors and enhancing relationships. This 8- week group is designed to help members understand the relationships among disordered eating and relationships, weight and shape concerns, situational triggers and personal factors. Mindfulness and goal setting strategies are emphasized in our meetings. Screenings begin in fall quarter. Space is limited. This group is led by Gia Marson, Ed.D.
Thursdays, 2:30pm-4:00pm
(Begins 10/8 or 10/15)
Learning Objectives
- Gain an understanding of the connection among eating behaviors, feelings and thoughts
Focus on enhancing personal relationships
- Challenge destructive habits
- Create a healthier lifestyle
Disordered Eating: Group II
This follow-up group is open to students who are committed to continuing the process of developing healthier eating, exercising, coping and relational skills. Members enhance their skills for creating a healthier lifestyle, challenging destructive behaviors and improving relationships. Mindfulness and goal setting strategies are highlighted. 30-minute screenings begin in fall quarter. Space is limited. This group is led by Gia Marson, Ed.D.
Fridays, 10:30am-12:00pm (Begins 10/2)
Learning Objectives
- Further understand the connection among eating behaviors, feelings and
- thoughts
- Focus on enhancing personal relationships
- Continue to challenge destructive habits
- Create a healthier lifestyle
Dissertations Writers Group I & II
Are you a graduate student wanting a safe and supportive place to discuss issues and challenges regarding the Thesis or Dissertation writing process? Topics typically discussed include procrastination, writing blocks, perfectionism, time management, confidence issues and conflicts with peers and professors.
Group I - Mondays, 2:00-3:45pm
Group II - Tuesdays, 3:00-5:00pm
Learning Objectives
- Identify current problem areas related to the dissertation process
- Validate current thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Assess and evaluate the effectiveness of current coping
- Identify and apply effective strategies for moving forward with the dissertation
Entre Mujeres
Entre mujeres is a support group where female students can discuss Latino cultural issues relevant to their educational successes and challenges. Topics will include family relationships, identity, dating, work, social demands and the impact of these issues on your UCLA experience.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives:
- To experience a culturally sensitive model of group psychotherapy
- To explore and dispel the negative stereotypes confronting Latinawomen.
- To examine the adaptive and maladaptive coping styles of Latina women.
Finding Focus:
Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties
Need help with concentration problems, ADHD and other academic difficulties? Join this 5-session group to (1) Identify strengths and weaknesses related to academic difficulties; (2) understand how to maximize attention, concentration and memory; (3) increase skills to improve academic performance; (4) decrease anxiety and manage stress; and (5) manage personal, social and campus support to improve college success.
This five-session structured psychoeducational group cycles weekly through the end of the academic year.
Session 1- How do I focus? Understanding attention, concentration and memory.
Session 2- How do I prioritize? Priorities, procrastination and time management
Session 3- How do I study effectively? Maximizing academic performance.
Session 4- How do I de-stress? Managing stress and anxiety
Session 5- How do I manage a crisis? Putting it all into action.
Fridays, 1:00pm-2:30pm (Starting Week 3)
Thursdays, 3:00-4:30pm (Starting Week 5)
Learning Objectives
- Increase understanding of individual barriers to academic success
- Increase knowledge of attention, concentration and memory functions
- Increase knowledge of study and exam strategies to maximize performance
- Increase skills to manage anxiety and stress related to ADHD and academic performance
- Increase knowledge of campus resources designed to maximize academic performance
Finding Focus for Graduate Students
Hoping to improve academic performance in your graduate study? This brief skills-focused group will help you identify strategies to promote self-directed learning; improve communication skills in academic relationships; and decrease test taking and writing anxiety.
Thursdays, 3:00-4:30
Begins 10/15
Learning Objectives
- Identify strategies to promote self-directed learning
- Improve communication skills in academic relationships
- Decrease test-taking and writing anxiety
Gay/Bi Men’s Psychotherapy Group
Support and skill-building for gay and bisexual men. The group will address issues unique to gay and bi sexual men, as well as more general concerns. Objectives of the group include developing better communication and relationship skills, improving self esteem, increasing social support, and defining a comfortable level of self-community connection.
Mondays, 4:00-5:30
Learning Objectives
- Develop better communication and relationship skills,
- Improve self esteem,
- Increase social support
- Define a comfortable level of self-community connection.
Graduate Students of Color Support Group
Are you a graduate student of color? Join this support group for incoming and returning graduate students of color that is designed to increase connection, self-empowerment, and advocacy as students academically retain and advance in a professional, multicultural world.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Build a social support network for yourself with other graduate students of color
- Raise awareness of cultural dynamics impacting graduate experience
- Increase self-empowerment skills in a university setting
Graduate Students Psychotherapy Group
The Graduate Student Psychotherapy Group provides support for students pursuing masters and doctorate degrees. The group consists of 6-8 members who discuss interpersonal issues including family, romantic partnerships, feelings of isolation, depression, anxiety, and multicultural issues. The group also provides a unique opportunity for honest interpersonal exploration, allowing one to learn how to build more rewarding relationships in life.
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:30pm
Learning Objectives
- Create a forum for graduate students to give and receive needed support from peers.
- Address personal issues that may interfere with students’ functioning including family, romantic partnerships, feelings of isolation, depression, anxiety, and multicultural.
- Provide a unique opportunity for honest interpersonal exploration, allowing students to learn how to build more rewarding relationships in life.
Grief Support & Education Group
Have you experienced an important loss? This semi-structured group provides opportunities for sharing personal grief experiences while also receiving support from others who have lost a loved one. This group will help you to identify different aspects of your grief experience and develop personal approaches to addressing emotions of grief.
Wednesday 1:00-2:30
Learning Objectives
- Increase understanding about the grieving process
- Improve capacity to cope with and move through grief-related emotions
- Receive increased social support
- Integrate grief into one’s efforts to succeed academically
Hello, Goodbye: Military Deployment Support Group
This is a support group for all members of the UCLA student community who have a loved one deployed in one of the current military conflicts. Join this group intended for significant others, partners, or close family members who want to lend and receive support during this challenging time.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Create a supportive cohort with other UCLA students who have a loved one who is deployed
- Stress management techniques for separation anxiety
- Using external and internal coping resources to enhance quality of life
- Preparing for homecoming and (re)deployments
- Review of “These Boots”: A Spouse’s Guide to Stepping Up and Standing Tall During Deployment
Maintaining Healthy Lifestyles
Problems with alcohol and drugs can negatively affect performance and progress in school as well as other areas in life. Explore how the use of alcohol and drugs may have led to difficulties in your life, how they influence your behavior, and ways to reduce reoccurring problems.
Group I – Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm
Group II -Mondays, 2:00-3:00pm
Learning Objectives
- Minimize risk of harm related to substance use
- Increase awareness of social norms
- Learn to identify substance use vs. abuse vs. dependence
- Learn to identify specific risks of specific substances
Managing Medical Illness
For students with ongoing medical conditions affecting their academic, campus, and/or social life. This group will provide an opportunity for you to: gain support from others regarding managing your illness; learn more about the connections between illness, pain, and distress; develop techniques to cope better with some of your symptoms; and enhance communication with others about your illness and needs
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Gain support from others regarding managing your illness
- Learn more about the connections between illness, pain, and distress
- Develop techniques to cope better with some of your symptoms
- Enhance communication with others about your illness and needs
Mixed Anxiety Therapy Group
Are you coping with any form of anxiety including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, health related worry, and panic attacks? This structured, skills-focused group uses cognitive-behavioral and acceptance based strategies to help break the cycle of anxiety.
Thursday, 2:30-4:00pm
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the cycle of anxiety and how to break it.
- Learn to examine your thoughts and understand how certain thinking patterns influence anxiety.
- Get back into your life by reducing the avoidance of anxiety provoking situations.
"Moving Forward" Substance Use Group
This confidential, brief group is for students who would like help examining their current use patterns, setting goals to alter use habits, and taking steps to modify using behaviors. The “Moving Forward” group is open to interested students at any time in the course of the 6-week group rotation, although an initial assessment is required before entry into the group can begin.
Date and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Identify triggers and cues that lead to excessive use
- Define personal goals for using behaviors that establish reasonable limits for use habits
- Distinguish pros and cons for “cutting back” or stopping altogether
- Provide and receive support from other members to motivate self-defined behavior change
- Learn about additional resources for making changes and achieving personal goals
OEF/OIF Readjustment Group - Building Support and Resiliency
Are you an OEF/OIF veteran who is readjusting to civilian and campus life? The transition from soldier to student can be a rewarding but complex experience. This is a strength-based support group designed to increase a sense of connection on campus, and enhance resiliency and coping skills for post-combat student veterans.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Learn and enhance coping strategies to ease the transition from military to campus/civilian life
- Recognize and address common campus stressors and triggers relevant to post-combat veterans
- Increase ability to make sense of combat experience and possible change in worldview
- Enhance interpersonal communication skills with loved ones and fellow students
Overcoming Social Anxiety
Do you feel uncomfortable in social situations? This therapy group is designed to help students overcome anxiety in a variety social situations including speaking in front of groups/classroom situations, initiating and maintaining conversations, meeting new people, going to parties, and being assertive. This 10-week, structured, skills-focused group will help you learn more about your individual patterns of anxiety and ways to manage it differently so it no longer interferes with your life.
Mondays, 1:30-3:00pm
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the cycle of social anxiety and how to break it.
- Learn to examine your thoughts and understand how certain thinking patterns can influence anxiety.
- Get back into your life by reducing avoidance of anxiety provoking social situations.
Positive Coping: An HIV+ Support Group
A closed, confidential group for students who are HIV+. The group will address any and all issues related to being HIV+. Objectives of the group are to increase social support, improve self esteem, learn more about HIV and health maintenance, balance health and academic demands, help resolve spiritual/existential conflicts and promote healthy sexuality.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Increase social support and improve self-esteem
- Learn more about HIV and health maintenance
- Balance health and academic demands
- Help resolve spiritual/existential conflicts
- Promote healthy sexuality
Recovering From Depression
This group will focus on teaching ways to alleviate symptoms associated with depressed mood. These symptoms might include a loss of interest and motivation in doing things, low energy and fatigue, difficulties with concentration, sleep difficulties, and changes in appetite. Group participants will learn strategies to change depressive thought patterns as well as improve functioning and quality of life.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- About the interaction of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, and specifically how the depression cycle fits into that model.
- Strategies to learn to change their thinking patterns that contribute to their depressed mood.
- About the importance of behavioral activation and how to implement obtainable, measurable goals for themselves.
- How acceptance-based strategies can help improve mood and self-esteem.
Relationships 101
For students who want to deepen self understanding and relationships skills. This group will help you to search for meaningful interpersonal relationships, find effective ways to connect and communicate with others, and also understand what may be getting in the way of your achieving these goals.
Group I: Mondays, 3-4:30pm
Group II: Wednesdays, 3-4:30pm
Learning Objectives
- Deepen your self understanding and relationship skills
- Find effective ways to communicate with others
- Understand the barriers keepings you from developing meaningful interpersonal relationships
The Social Group
Do you feel like you just don’t understand how other people seem to communicate with each other so easily? This is a supportive and friendly space for social development. Students with Aspergers and similar concerns will find this work especially helpful.
Day and Time TBD
Learning Objectives
- Decode nonverbal social cues like body language and facial expressions
- Develop comfort and experience with social situations
- Effectively communicate your needs to other people
