Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions

by Sondra Brandler, Camille P. Roman

Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions, Second Edition, offers you more strategies and methods for successful group work. Discussing more topics and issues that may arise in groups, this new edition gives you up-to-date techniques that will help you offer improved services in a variety of settings." "Complete with more games and exercises for group sessions, this book also contains excerpts and discussions of case studies that will serve as a valuable reference and may be applied to your own experiences. Group Work will help you provide improved services to clients as it discusses effective suggestions and strategies, such as: gaining an understanding of "self," or the process by which you identify internal responses to external stimuli created by the group; unlocking the underlying meanings, themes, and needs of a group by examining transference and countertransference issues; establishing guidelines, structures, and goals and purposes for groups and defining your role in achieving these standards; and helping you identify and work through feelings of boredom, helplessness, sadness, and anger, which are potential barriers to the work of the group.

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Work

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 21, 1991