Group Work: Processes and Applications, 2nd Edition

"The overriding theme of Group Work: Processes and Applications is a focus on the specialized group work that counselors perform from a systemic perspective in a multicultural context. This text briefly covers traditional theoretical approaches, focusing more on the techniques and applications of the approaches, but the core of the text involves the systemic approach to group work: preparing group leaders to facilitate the systemic group process, from planning the group through the four stages of group work: forming and orienting, transition, working, and termination. The content is aligned with 2016 CACREP standards. Numerous other techniques, covered, are linked with specific theoretical orientations. PowerPoints and Instructor's manual are available."--Provided by publisher.

Section 1: Foundations of group work -- Introduction to group work: historical perspectives and functional group models -- Ethical and legal foundations of group work -- Multicultural issues in group work -- Outcome research in group work -- Leading groups -- Distinguishing group member roles -- Section 2: Systemic group work -- Planning for group work -- Accountability in group work -- Forming and orienting groups -- the transition stage in group work -- The working stage -- Termination -- Group work across the lifespan -- Section 3: Task and psychoeducational groups -- Leading task groups -- Leading psychoeducational goups -- Section 4: Group work in action -- Person centered and existential approaches to counseling and psychotherapy : theory, techniques and applications -- The rational-emotive behaviour therapy approach to group counseling and psychotherapy: theory, techniques and applications.