The essential groupworker

By Catherine Sawdon, Mark Doel

Subjects: Social group work, Study and teaching, Group Psychotherapy, Social Work, Group Processes, Group relations training, Group counseling, Self-Help Groups

Description: "Using activities to promote the reader's understanding and involvement. The Essential Groupworker describes how to plan, set up and maintain a working group. The authors look at the ways in which power and power relations, and individual and group identities influence the success or failure of a group. They show how to evaluate outcomes and apply knowledge gained through experience, and consider ways of approaching group endings."--BOOK JACKET. "Written for students, practitioners and educators, The Essential Groupworker will stimulate effective and creative groupwork practice in a wide variety of settings."--Jacket.