A practical guide to maximizing learning in groups This easy-to-understand book provides practical strategies for helping members learn from their ongoing group experience, including guided illumination of selected group events. Real cases and practice exercises reinforce the importance of reflecting on your practice between group sessions. This brief guide draws on the latest research on group work, covering diversity and multicultural issues as well as accreditation or specialty standards. How to Help Leaders and Members Learn from Groups is part of the Group Work Practice Kit: Improving the Everyday Practice of Group Work, a collection of nine books each authored by scholars in the specific field of group work. To promote a consistent reading experience, the books in the collection conform to editor Robert K. Conyne’s outline. Designed to provide practitioners, instructors, students, and trainees with concrete direction for improving group work, the series provides thorough coverage of the entire span of group work practice. This book is endorsed by the Association for Specialists in Group Work.

How to Help Leaders and Members Learn from Their Group Experience (Group Work Practice Kit)

Ward, Donald E.

Ward, Christopher A.

Business & Money

Sage Publications, Inc.

This introductory-level text advances group work training and practice by offering examples of exemplary training models and curricula that are in compliance with the revised Association for Specialists in Group Work Professional -~ Training Standards. The authors examine the implementation of the ASGW Training Standards within specific counselingprograms, and identify commendable curricular approaches 'that are being used to teach the standards.Group work competencies that all counselors need to possess are examined, as is- training in each of the four group work specializations: task groups, psychoeducation groups, group counseling, and group psychotherapy. The authors recommend specific design principles for developing original training experiences, and provide concrete action steps for faculty, students, and practitioners to consider as they attempt to implement the general principles of comprehensive group work.

Comprehensive Group Work: What It Means & How to Teach It

Politics & Social Sciences

Conyne, Robert K.

Wilson, F. Robert

Social Sciences

Amer Counseling Assn

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