Using groups to help people / Dorothy Stock Whitaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitaker, Dorothy Stock, 1925-

Series:

International library of group psychotherapy and group process.

International library of group psychotherapy and group process

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group counseling.

Group psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 363 p.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new edition of Using Groups to Help People has been written with the interests, needs, and concerns of group therapists and group workers in mind. It is designed to help practitioners to plan and conduct therapeutic groups of diverse kinds, and it presents frameworks to assist practitioners to understand and judge how to respond to the unique situations which arise during group sessions. It deals with such issues as: choosing groups formats and structures to match the needs and capabilities if different populations of people observing and listening to groups, and making sense of what one sees and hears. problem situations, and how they can be turned into opportunities why, how and when to intervene in a group events which can occur in therapeutic groups which cannot occur in individual psychotherapy, and implications for the therapist uses and misuses of theory when planning and conducting groups planning and conducting research on one's own groups and those of colleagues. This practical and readable book will prove valuable to all those involved in making use of small face-to-face groups to benefit their members. It takes into account new developments in the field during the past fifteen years, including new writing and the author's further experiences and thinking during this time.

Contents:

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

chapter 1 A therapist’s purposes in conducting a group

chapter 2 Who are groups for?

chapter 3 Defining ‘benefit’

chapter 4 Small face-to-face groups

chapter 5 Theory

part Part II Planning

chapter 6 Necessary decisions when planning a group

chapter 7 Examples: different groups for different populations

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

chapter 8 ‘Think-work’

chapter 9 Getting started

chapter 10 Subsequent events

chapter 11 Problems and opportunities

chapter 12 Personal gains

chapter 13 Little or no gain, or actual harm

chapter 14 Discerning, retrieving and avoiding making errors

chapter 15 Intervening in groups: why, how and when

chapter 16 The therapist in the group

chapter 17 Theory and its connections with practice

part Part IV How therapists can continue to learn

chapter 18 Learning from one’s own practice experience

chapter 19 Learning from the experiences of others

chapter 20 Conducting research on one’s own groups and in one’s own workplace.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780203360835 (Electronic Book)

9780203360835

OCLC:

437082903