Facilitating Challenging Groups - Leaderless, Open, and Single-Session Groups

Facilitating Challenging Groups offers activities, tools, tips, and techniques vital to everyone from the smallest self-help group to the largest human-relations training session.

List of contents

Part I: The Challenges, 1. Meeting the Challenge, Part II: Open Groups, 2. Open Groups, 3.Issues, Concerns, and Possible Strategies, 4. Planning Open Groups, 5. Facilitative Skills and Techniques, Part III: Leaderless Groups, 6. Variations for Leaderless Groups, 7. Self-help and Support Groups, 8. Guidelines for Leaderless Groups, IV. Single-Session Groups, 9. Single Sessions, 10. Variations for Single-Session Groups, 11. Managing Premature Termination, Part V. Activities, 12. Activities, 13. Getting Started, 14. Building Self-esteem and Self-confidence, 15. Relationship Building and Enhancement, 16. Communication Skills, 17. Termination

About the author

Nina Brown, EdD, LPC, FAGPA, is pofessor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University. She is a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the author of dozens of books, including Creative Activities for Group Therapy and Psychoeducational Groups, 3^rd ed.

Summary

Facilitating Challenging Groups offers activities, tools, tips, and techniques vital to everyone from the smallest self-help group to the largest human-relations training session.

Product details

• Authors: Nina W. Brown, Nina W. (Old Dominion University Brown, Brown Nina W.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2013
• EAN: 9780415857147
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85714-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Educational psychology, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling and care of students, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services