Psycho Educational Courses

Brief focus courses provide a unique therapeutic experience for clients to interact with others. The goal is to educate, promote group identification and cohesion, reduce client distress, and promote successful outcomes through facilitating behavioural and attitudinal changes. Psycho education courses are developed and run according to client need. The following are a list of the groups that are currently running at the Personal Development Centre:

Anger Management – This seven session course is designed to assist participants in managing and expressing their anger more effectively.

Understanding Anxiety – This course helps clients to understand anxiety and learn a variety of coping strategies when feeling anxious.

Assertion – This course is designed to encourage participants to act in their own best interest and stand up for themselves while respecting others.

Family Issues – Through education, self-reflection and group discussions, participants will take stock of what happened to them when growing up, understand their behaviour and work towards making changes in the areas they choose.

Feeling Good – This course uses a cognitive approach to help participants become aware of and learn to challenge thoughts that may be negatively affecting their moods, self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living.

Living With a Loss – This course is designed to assist participants in understanding and processing issues of loss effectively. The primary focus of the course is education related to the grieving process.

Parenting – Participants will learn how to build a positive relationship with their children by focusing on mutual respect, encouragement, listening skills and natural and logical consequences.

Peer Support Group – The purpose of this consumer run group is to provide a forum for ongoing support, discussion, skill application, problem solving and community linkages

Relationships – Participants will learn about strengthening relationships of all kinds – including friendships and intimate relationships.

Self-Esteem – This six session course is designed to assist participants in gaining a fuller, richer, more balanced sense of their self-worth.

Spirituality – Participants will be guided toward an awareness of their own spirituality and their spiritual well being and self care will be encouraged.

Stress Management – This eight session course looks at the causes of stress and helps participants develop some coping skills in dealing with stress more effectively.

Understanding Depression – This educational course is designed to help participants understand the nature of their depression and how to make changes in their behaviour and beliefs that can lead to a more productive life.

Wellness – This course is designed to help participants reflect on the role that wellness plays across the various dimensions of their lives – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual and explore options for moving them toward high level wellness.