Dorothy Stock Whitaker
This new edition of Using Groups to Help People has been written with the interests, needs, and concerns of group therapists and group workers in mind. It is designed to help practitioners to plan and conduct therapeutic groups of diverse kinds, and it presents frameworks to assist practitioners to understand and judge how to respond to the unique situations which arise during group sessions. It deals with such issues as:
- choosing groups formats and structures to match the needs and capabilities if different populations of people
- observing and listening to groups, and making sense of what one sees and hears.
- problem situations, and how they can be turned into opportunities why, how and when to intervene in a group
- events which can occur in therapeutic groups which cannot occur in individual psychotherapy, and implications for the therapist uses and misuses of theory when planning and conducting groups
- planning and conducting research on one's own groups and those of colleagues.
This practical and readable book will prove valuable to all those involved in making use of small face-to-face groups to benefit their members. It takes into account new developments in the field during the past fifteen years, including new writing and the author's further experiences and thinking during this time.
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Work with groups in psychotherapy is now a very well estalished way of working - this new edition takes into account the increase in growth and experience of group work practice
Nothing else has such a comprehensive and practical approach to planning and running therapeutic work with groups
Current major problem with therapy training is that it doesn't cover problems encountered in practice, this edition has a new emphasis on practical problem-solving in clinical settings
The first edition was instrumental in establishing the importance and popularity of group therapy in the UK
List of figures, Preface, Acknowledgements , PART I Thinking about groups before any plans are made or actions taken taken, PART II Planning, PART III Thinking and taking action during the life of a group, PART IV How therapists can continue to learn, Bibliography, Index
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Dorothy Stock Whitaker
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures, Preface, Acknowledgements , PART I Thinking about groups before any plans are made or actions taken taken, PART II Planning, PART III Thinking and taking action during the life of a group, PART IV How therapists can continue to learn, Bibliography, Index
Klappentext
The experience of the past ten years of group work has shown that practitioners tend to encounter most problems not when considering the theory of how to run groups, but when they are actually in clinical sessions with groups. This new edition of Using Groups to Help People focuses on anticipating and solving problems in group work, including: how and when to intervene in a group, dealing with 'problem' group members, listening to and observing groups. Reflecting the changes of the last decade, this up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical book will prove valuable to all those involved in group work.
