Using Groups to Help People

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ISBN: 9780203360835 | 0203360834
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Copyright: 3/9/2004

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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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List of figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Thinking about groups before any plans are made or actions taken	p. 1
A therapist's purposes in conducting a group	p. 3
Who are groups for?	p. 14
Defining 'benefit'	p. 23
Small face-to-face groups	p. 31
Theory	p. 43
Planning	p. 65
Necessary decisions when planning a group	p. 67
Examples: different groups for different populations	p. 81
Thinking and taking action during the life of a group	p. 95
'Think-work': listening, observing, and attributing meanings to what one hears and sees	p. 97
Getting started: opening a group and responding to what happens next	p. 110
Subsequent events: developmental stages and goings and comings	p. 122
Problems and opportunities	p. 142
Personal gains	p. 164
Little or no gain, or actual harm	p. 196
Discerning, retrieving and avoiding making errors	p. 215
Intervening in groups: why, how and when	p. 231
The therapist in the group	p. 250
Theory and its connections with practice	p. 277
How therapists can continue to learn	p. 297
Learning from one's own practice experience	p. 299
Learning from the experiences of others	p. 313
Conducting research on one's own groups and in one's own workplace	p. 319
Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 347
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