AUPSC expands group therapy programs across clinics

9/13/2024

The Auburn University Psychological Services Center (AUPSC) now offers more group therapy programs for adolescents and adults.

Body Project Group

The Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic (AEDC) is accepting participants for the Body Project Group, a group-based body acceptance program.

The program is designed to help resist societal pressures to look a certain way and feel more confident in your body through learning and reflection.

The group is open to all individuals over the age of 18 and will be led by graduate clinicians.

For more information and to apply, contact the AEDC or visit the website.

Coping Skills for Adolescents and Adults

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) treatment helps improve problematic patterns in emotion regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships and self-image.

The AUPSC offers a 20-week DBT Skills Group for ages 13-18 and a 15-week DBT Skills Group for adults. The groups focus on mindfulness, walking the middle path, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

The group is designed to help individuals address existing behavioral, emotional and interpersonal problems and begin living a life worth living.

To join the waitlist or learn more, contact the clinic at 334-844-4889. If you would like to be contacted by a clinician, please complete the information survey.

CARTT Club

The Center for Autism Research, Treatment and Training (CARTT) Club is a social skills group for 11-13-year-olds that utilizes applied behavior analysis treatment to help improve emotion regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships and communication.

CARTT Club offers skill development through skill modeling and practice and discussion and facilitated play, paired with expressive communication, development of an expanded leisure skill repertoire, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

These skills are aimed at helping group participants engage with their peers in social, academic and community settings.

Groups are led by graduate and undergraduate clinicians in the Department of Psychological Sciences under the supervision of a board-certified behavior analyst and licensed independent clinical social worker. Groups are conducted for 6–8-week sessions each fall and spring.

For more information, contact CARTT at 334-844-6691.

The AUPSC is a training clinic that provides therapy and assessment services for children, adolescents, adults and families in east Alabama and surrounding areas. Services at AUPSC are open to anyone and you do not need to be affiliated with Auburn University to seek services.

Tags: Psychological Sciences Community, Outreach and Engagement

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