Using groups to help people / Dorothy Stock Whitaker.
This new edition of Using Groups to Help People focuses on anticipating and solving problems in group work. The new edition reflects the changes of the last decade, and will prove valuable to all those involved in group work.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hove [England] ; Philadelphia :
Brunner-Routledge,
2001.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | International library of group psychotherapy and group process.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Thinking about groups before any plans are made or actions taken taken; A therapist's purposes in conducting a group; Who are groups for?; Defining 'benefit'; Small face-to-face groups; Theory; Planning; Necessary decisions when planning a group; Examples: different groups for different populations; Thinking and taking action during the life of a group; 'Think-work': listening, observing, and attributing meanings to what one hears and sees; Getting started: opening a group and responding to what happens next.
- Subsequent events: developmental stages and goings and comingsProblems and opportunities; Personal gains; Little or no gain, or actual harm; Discerning, retrieving and avoiding making errors; Intervening in groups: why, how and when; The therapist in the group; Theory and its connections with practice; How therapists can continue to learn; Learning from one's own practice experience; Learning from the experiences of others; Conducting.