This text concentrates on the skills and techniques required to lead a group, and offers potential group leaders a model of group counselling that includes both the techniques and the tools for planning and implementing effective groups. This model shows how to integrate leadership and member roles in bringing about decisions, promoting sharing, and facilitating therapeutic change. Every facet of group counselling is discussed in detail - from planning the format, screening members, and identifying issues to conducting in-depth therapy, closing sessions, and handling problem or crisis situations. The reader is taught skills such as getting and holding the focus, and drawing out more passive members. This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students on courses in departments of counsellor education, psychology, human services, social work and nursing.

Group counseling: Strategies and skills

Politics & Social Sciences

Jacobs, Edward E.

Politics & Government

Brooks/Cole

Psychological Assessment Resources, 1992 - Psychology - 158 pagesCounseling does not have to be a slow process. Creative techniques can be used to make counseling more active, to dramatize points and heighten awareness, and to enhance learning because people are visual learners. The therapist/trainer presents a variety of creative techniques with samples of counselor/client dialog. Readers also will learn how to use props, chairs, and movement in working with individuals and groups

Creative Counseling Techniques: An Illustrated Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Psychological Assessment Resources

This book is for counselors, social workers, and psychologists who work in schools, mental health agencies, treatment centers, rehabilitation centers, and crisis centers. IMPACT THERAPY was written to helps those counselors work at a faster and productive pace. IMPACT THERAPY is for therapists working with all populations since it is very broad in its focus and deals with the counseling process and how clients learn.

Impact Therapy

Regardless of the setting, leading a group is one of the most difficult challenges to learn. It is essential to obtain the basic concepts of group leadership to achieve this goal Leading Groups in Corrections provides you this information and more. Topics include: challenges in conducting groups in correctional settings, common mistakes in correctional group leading, group leadership skills, use of theories, exercises, special populations in correctional settings, starting groups, and closing a session and closing the group.

Leading Groups in Corrections: Skills and Techniques

Spadaro, Nina

Amer Correctional Assn

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Group counseling: Strategies and skills

Creative Counseling Techniques: An Illustrated Guide

Impact Therapy

Leading Groups in Corrections: Skills and Techniques