Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills - Softcover

Jacobs, Edward E.; Masson, Robert L.; Harvill, Riley L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534367577 ISBN 13: 9780534367572

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

This widely used and respected book presents an active, multi-sensory approach to group leading, focusing heavily on group leadership skills. While written with the counselor in mind, this book also provides an outstanding discussion of group dynamics for professionals in group leadership positions. The authors discuss the many facets of group counseling and provide examples that show "how" each skill can be applied in a wide range of group settings to produce efficient working groups.

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Review:

"This is a book that will help students learn how to lead groups. Students feel more confident about knowing what to do when they meet with a group for the first time. The book will also be helpful when things in the group do not go well."

Synopsis:

Offers strategies and exercises in group facilitation to beginning students and experienced practitioners. Overviews the group process, covering leadership functions, stages of groups, therapeutic forces, and purposes of groups. Describes how to begin and close a group, how to work with specific populations and settings, and how to deal with proble

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0534367577
• ISBN 13: 9780534367572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 432