Individual Therapy

The Harris Psychological Services Center offers individual psychotherapy for adults and children, as well as for couples and families. Psychiatric consultation is available.

Group Therapy

Adult

DBT Skills Training Group
Focus: Coping skills training for persons with borderline personality disorder, based on Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy model.
Format: Weekly sessions for one year for adults.
Content: Topics include regulating emotions, being more effective in relationships, and dealing with stressful situations. Sessions consist of lectures, discussion, and homework activities.

Interpersonal Group
Focus: Improving relationships, relieving depression, enhancing self-esteem, resolving anger, and other related topics based on Yalom's group therapy model.
Format: Weekly sessions for adults. Group is ongoing with no set limit on the number of sessions.
Content: Group discussions include exploration of feelings, receiving support from others, giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Note: This group is not being offered at this time. 

Parenting Skills Group
Focus: Helping parents improve their children's behavior problems.
Format: 10 weekly sessions for parents of children ages 8-12.
Content: Discussion of various parenting errors and ways to reduce children's problematic behaviors. Sessions consist of discussions, rehearsal of parenting strategies, and homework assignments to try out new skills at home.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Focus: Learning to effectively cope with stress, anxiety, pain, or other negative life experiences through mindfulness.
Format: 8 weekly evening sessions, as well as daily practice involving meditation, yoga, and other activities.
Content: Topics include integrating mindfulness into daily living, practicing meditation and yoga taught from a non-religious perspective, confronting and coping with negative feelings and experiences, and learning to be more aware of the self in the world.

Children

Social Skills Group
Focus: Developing social skills and improving peer relationships.
Format: 12 weekly after-school sessions for children ages 8-12.
Content: Topics include social problem solving, cooperation, conversational skills, recognizing and controlling anger, complimenting and encouraging others, and group entry. Sessions consist of group discussions, learning activities, skill practice, and role playing.

Anger Management Group
Focus: Teaching skills to effectively manage anger and reduce aggression.
Format: 12 weekly after-school sessions for children ages 8 - 12.
Content: Topics include understanding what makes you angry, recognizing when you are getting angry, learning how to control your anger, appropriately expressing anger, problem solving, perspective taking, and learning how to handle frustration.

Assessments

Neuropsychological, intellectual, and personality assessments for both adults and children may be obtained at the center. Assessments of learning disabilities and attention deficit/hyperactivity are also available. Assessments range in price from $100 to $500. UK staff and students are eligible for a 10% discount on assessment services at the Harris Center. Please call (859.257.6853) for more information.