Full Description
This book provides skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. It can be applied to many situations - support, psychotherapy or education groups, with groups of students or clients, in organizations or communities. It includes many simulated exercises to provide the necessary practice for leadership skills. This edition includes: new information on self-help support groups and computer-mediated groups; more information on the history, theory, and research related to group process; more information on group conflict, group problem-solving, group decision making, types of leadership, and team building; a checklist for beginning a group; methods for warming up groups; and methods for working with large groups.
Contents
Introduction to group work; basic group concepts and process; working to achieve group goals; special group problems; beginning, guiding and terminating the group; supervision of group leaders and co-leadership; behavioural approaches for group leaders; recording and analysing group process; groups for the older adult; working with focal and focus groups; when the organization is the group; when the community is the group.
