Skills and Techniques for Group Work With Childre

Content Highlights

1 Professional Issues and Organizational Skills -- organizing the group experience, understanding the group process, using problem situations as learning experiences

2 Leadership Skills -- activities and exercises, goal setting, dyads and triads, minimal prompts and turn signals, empathy, questioning, cutting off, drawing out, focusing

3 Therapeutic Interaction Techniques -- contracting, feedback, role playing, progressive muscle relaxation, self-improvement homework, "I" statements, closing rituals

Recommended for any counselor or group leader who works with children or adolescents -- regardless of the issues that the group addresses or the setting and format of the group. An excellent college text.