Working More Creatively With Groups

In this classic text Jarlath Benson presents the basic knowledge required to set up and work with a group. He looks at how to plan and lead a group successfully and how to intervene skillfully. As well as covering the different stages in the life of a group, the book emphasizes the group experience and gives suggestions for working more with them. For this new edition the author has added two new chapters reflecting how his own thinking and practice has developed since the book was first published. In the first chapter he presents a new model for understanding human behavior which emphasizes particular contexts for work in groups: the psychophysical, the psychological, the psychosocial and the psychospiritual. In the second chapter, by means of a series of clinical vignettes, he provides the groupworker with practical and helpful techniques for facilitating each of these contexts and perspectives. Well-known to countless social workers, psychologists and community workers, this new edition ofWorking More Creatively with Groupsnot only provides a basic guide to groupwork but shows how to move on to more in-depth and intensive work.

Jarlath F. Benson is a psychotherapist and group analyst working in private practice in Belfast and London