A practical guide to improving the everyday practice of group work
Establishing a general context and framework for the volumes included in the Group Work Practice Kit, What Is Group Work? presents an inclusive overview of group work in an easy-to-read format. Authors Robert K. Conyne and Leann T. Diederich:

• Define types of groups
• Connect with accreditation and/or specialty standards
• Demonstrate how best practices in group work and attention to diversity and multicultural issues can be used to...

A practical guide to group work in schools
This book effectively demonstrates how group work is being used within schools, from elementary through college and university levels. The authors emphasize remedial, developmental, and preventive applications of groups--including psychoeducation group formats--and cover groups that have an educational and/or career focus.

Groups in Schools is part of the Group Work Practice Kit: Improving the Everyday Practice of Group Work, a collection of nine books each authored by scholars in...

A practical guide to group work in community and agency settings
Group work is becoming commonplace in a variety of community settings, including sexual assault centers, mental health centers, battered women's shelters, chemical dependency units, community planning, employee training and development, employee assistance centers, and in other outpatient, inpatient, and residential settings. This accessible book:

• Demonstrates how the full range of group work, from remedial through preventive groups, is manifested in an array of community...

A practical guide to maximizing learning in groups
This easy-to-understand book provides practical strategies for helping members learn from their ongoing group experience, including guided illumination of selected group events. Real cases and practice exercises reinforce the importance of reflecting on your practice between group sessions. This brief guide draws on the latest research on group work, covering diversity and multicultural issues as well as accreditation or specialty standards.

How to Help Leaders and Members Learn from...

Learn to develop key strategies and directly influence positive group culture
This accessible book details the competencies, functions, and strategies that help members benefit from a positive group culture as they pursue their own learning. The authors demonstrate how group members and leaders learn and derive meaning from their group work experience. Drawing on the latest research on group work, this practical book also covers diversity and multicultural issues as well as accreditation or specialty standards.

How to Select and Apply...

Learn to foster a group with positive group culture
This brief, easy-to-understand book draws on the latest research on group work to identify group conditions that yield a positive group culture. Throughout the book, authors Cheri L. Marmarosh, Emily Carter Dunton, and Claudia Ammendola explain how to nurture, support, and promote these conditions while addressing coverage of diversity and multicultural issues. Accreditation or specialty standards enhance the book's presentation.

This book is part of the Group Work Practice Kit: Improving the...

Form groups that empower growth, learning, and change
Drawing on the latest research on group work, this accessible book will help you master key concepts and skills. Providing insightful coverage of diversity and multicultural issues, How to Form a Group focuses on all aspects of forming an effective group, including:

• Strategies for overcoming environmental roadblocks to group formation, such as agency staff lack of support for groups
• Key practices to consider when organizing groups
• Practical guidance...

Any intentional group is based on a coherent group plan. This book will identify the elements that are basic to any plan and will apply these elements within an ongoing example. Among the elements to be included are: Identifying the Population, Need and Environmental Assessment, Goals, Rationale for Using Group, Type of Group, Conceptual Framework Used, attention to Group Developmental stage and to Group Dynamics, Group Size, Group Composition, Session-by-Session plans, Evaluation Methodology.