Group Techniques offers a practical new approach to understanding and implementing a broad range of group techniques. Through the Purposeful Group Techniques Model (PGTM), a generic, flexible conceptual model that can be adapted for use in a variety of contexts, the text demonstrates how group leaders can choose counseling techniques purposefully based on the type of group, the group’s developmental stage, and applicable best practice guidelines. Talking through and comparing choices of techniques, along with each person's rationale will provide the very richest of learning experiences. As one result, students will not only learn about how to select and use group techniques but will learn a lot about themselves as people and group leaders. With the help of the model and concrete case-based descriptions of how to lead groups, the text examines counseling, psychoeducation, psychotherapy, and task groups.

Group Techniques: How to Use Them More Purposefully

Politics & Social Sciences

Conyne, Robert K.

Goodman, Jeri L.

Newmeyer, Mark D.

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

The Group workers' handbook: Varieties of group experience

C.C. Thomas

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention brings Preventative Counseling, one of prevention’s founding texts, firmly into the twenty-first century. Counseling for Wellness and Prevention thoroughly updates and significantly expands on discussions of practical applications and emerging best practices. Counselors and counseling psychologists will find evidence-based, contemporary guidance to help them engage in needed efforts to help clients and the general population to enhance their overall wellness and ward off future dysfunction. Author Robert Conyne demonstrates the ways in which the traditional model of one-to-one therapy can be expanded to embrace wellness and prevention as well as strategies for putting into practice a broad range of environmental and system change strategies, such as advocacy and community organization. The book is well-suited for adoption in counselor-education courses and includes explicit connections to CACREP accreditation standards. It’s also an excellent choice for programs in psychology, where the APA-approved prevention guidelines for psychologists are now available, and in social work, where prevention and community change have long been hallmarks.

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention: Helping People Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention

Preventive counseling is based on the concept that practitioners empower clients and systems more significantly when they embrace a "prevention orientation" to helping. This new edition of Preventive Counseling includes updated methods, approaches and a new section dedicated to prevention applications, providing readers with the "how-to" in designing, implementing and evaluating preventive interventions.

Preventive Counseling: Helping People to Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

Psychology & Counseling

Failures in Group Work: How We Can Learn from Our Mistakes

Actual failures in group work are examined in this book, as are the ways in which group leaders learnt from their mistakes, transforming failure into success. Two chapters are devoted to each major type of group work: task groups; psychoeducational groups; counselling groups; and psychotherapy groups. In each case study presented, Robert K Conyne covers the background, focuses on the group leadership functions of planning, performing and processing, and analyzes the major elements of the case.

Addiction & Recovery

Sage Publications, Inc.

Focusing on `normal′ rather than clinical populations, this book presents an account of how practitioners can develop effective groups. Two major categories of groups are explored: } task groups (such as committee groups) for solving problems and accomplishing tangible goals, and } personal groups (such as psychotherapy groups) for achieving individual change and developing interpersonal skills. The author utilizes two extensive examples or `stories′ throughout to demonstrate the applicability of his conceptual framework for group facilitation.

How Personal Growth and Task Groups Work (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Prevention Program Development and Evaluation: An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach

The use of seatbelts, the requirements for smoke detectors, and other kinds of public health interventions have been highly successful in reducing disability, injuries, and premature mortality. Prevention in mental health― identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes or identifying people at risk for a condition―is just as critical to public mental health. This research-based resource gives practitioners a nuts-and-bolts guide to designing and evaluating prevention programs in mental health that are culturally relevant and aimed at reducing the number of new problems that occur. Key Features 
<ul>
<li>Employs a 10-step prevention program development and evaluation model that emphasizes the concepts of community, collaboration, and cultural relevance </li>
<li>Offers a brief, practical, how-to approach that is based on rigorous research </li>
<li>Identifies specific prevention program development and evaluation steps </li>
<li>Highlights examples of "everyday prevention" practices as well as concrete prevention programs that have proven, effective implementation </li>
<li>Promotes hands-on learning with practical exercises, instructive figures, and a comprehensive reference list </li>
</ul>
 Intended Audience Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Prevention Program Development and Evaluation can be used as a core text in undergraduate courses devoted to prevention or in graduate programs aimed at practice issues. Current practitioners or policymakers interested in designing prevention programs will find this book to be an affable guide.

The use of seatbelts, the requirements for smoke detectors, and other kinds of public health interventions have been highly successful in reducing disability, injuries, and premature mortality. Prevention in mental health identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes or identifying people at risk for a conditionis just as critical to public mental health. This research-based resource gives practitioners a nuts-and-bolts guide to designing and evaluating prevention programs in mental health that are culturally relevant and aimed at reducing the number of new problems that occur. Key Features 
<ul>
<li>Employs a 10-step prevention program development and evaluation model that emphasizes the concepts of community, collaboration, and cultural relevance </li>
<li>Offers a brief, practical, how-to approach that is based on rigorous research </li>
<li>Identifies specific prevention program development and evaluation steps </li>
<li>Highlights examples of everyday prevention practices as well as concrete prevention programs that have proven, effective implementation </li>
<li>Promotes hands-on learning with practical exercises, instructive figures, and a comprehensive reference list </li>
</ul>
 Intended Audience Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Prevention Program Development and Evaluation can be used as a core text in undergraduate courses devoted to prevention or in graduate programs aimed at practice issues. Current practitioners or policymakers interested in designing prevention programs will find this book to be an affable guide.

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Group Techniques: How to Use Them More Purposefully

The Group workers' handbook: Varieties of group experience

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention: Helping People Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention

Preventive Counseling: Helping People to Become Empowered in Systems and Settings

Failures in Group Work: How We Can Learn from Our Mistakes

Failures in Group Work: How We Can Learn from Our Mistakes

How Personal Growth and Task Groups Work (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Prevention Program Development and Evaluation: An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach

Prevention Program Development and Evaluation: An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach