Brown Conducting Effective and Productive Psychoeducational and Therapy Groups

A Guide for Beginning Group Leaders
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-45695-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Conducting Effective and Productive Psychoeducational and Therapy Groups offers a three part structure designed to prepare future and beginning group leaders for the challenges that lie ahead: Getting Started, Trouble-Shooting/Problem-Solving, and Productivity/Endings. Along the way readers will find practical, step-by-step instructions and guidance; activities to promote involvement, growth, and self-understanding; as well as processes and procedures to prevent and to resolve difficult behaviors. Also included are 40+ activities, a typology of difficult member profiles, strategies to increase leader effectiveness, and a chapter on toxicity among groups as well as group members.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Nina W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. 1 Organizing for Effectiveness. 2 Planning. 3 A Collection of Introductory Activities. 4 Leader’s Attributes and Skills Development. 5 Facilitation Strategies. 6 Activities to Develop Leadership Attributes and Facilitation Style. 7 Teaching and Modeling Relationship Building and Communication Skills. 8 Trouble-Shooting and Problem-Solving. 9 Activities for Conflict, Tension, and Group Process. 10 Working and Closure. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nina W. Brown, EdD, is professor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University. She is a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the author of 23 books, includingCreative Activities for Group Therapy and Psychoeducational Groups, 3rd edition.