Focuses several different content areas: domestic abuse, anger management,
problem resolution, assertive training, and are heterogeneous or homogeneous
in composition. Group therapy is also done in phases and/or stages of
intervention, growth and progress depending on the group goal. Currently we
have three culturally specific groups. A culturally specific Hmong men's
group meets biweekly on Thursday and the culturally specific Hmong women's
group meet biweekly on Wednesday and Thursday.
We're in the process of establishing a trauma group for the more severely
traumatized refugees. All of our groups are a combination of therapy and
education and are geared toward problem resolution, conflict resolution by
providing a viable self-help model for goal attainment through guidance
direction and support. Value clarification is often discussed, renegotiated
and when possible assimilated and when not preserved within the culture
through socially acceptable adherents.