Using groups to help people / Dorothy Stock Whitaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitaker, Dorothy Stock, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group counseling.

Group psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xix, 356 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hove [England] ; Philadelphia : Brunner-Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Thinking about groups before any plans are made or actions taken 1

1 A therapist's purposes in conducting a group 3

2 Who are groups for? 14

3 Defining 'benefit' 23

4 Small face-to-face groups 31

5 Theory 43

Part II Planning 65

6 Necessary decisions when planning a group 67

7 Examples: different groups for different populations 81

Part III Thinking and taking action during the life of a group 95

8 'Think-work': listening, observing, and attributing meanings to what one hears and sees 97

9 Getting started: opening a group and responding to what happens next 110

10 Subsequent events: developmental stages and goings and comings 122

11 Problems and opportunities 142

12 Personal gains 164

13 Little or no gain, or actual harm 196

14 Discerning, retrieving and avoiding making errors 215

15 Intervening in groups: why, how and when 231

16 The therapist in the group 250

17 Theory and its connections with practice 277

Part IV How therapists can continue to learn 297

18 Learning from one's own practice experience 299

19 Learning from the experiences of others 313

20 Conducting research on one's own groups and in one's own workplace 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-345) and index.

ISBN:

0415195616

0415195624

OCLC:

44266373