ABSTRACT

A new edition of the classic group work textbook!

In Working More Creatively with Groups, Jarlath Benson presents the essential knowledge required to set up and work with a group. He looks at how to plan and lead a group successfully and how to intervene skilfully. As well as covering the different stages in the life of a group, the book emphasizes the various levels of group experience and gives suggestions for working imaginatively with them.

This thoroughly updated third edition not only provides a comprehensive guide to groupwork but shows the groupworker how to move on to more in-depth and intensive work, using a variety of strategies illustrated by full clinical vignettes. Many chapters are updated and expanded to include Benson’s latest thinking and teaching and the book includes two new chapters. The first focuses on working with and developing different sorts of groups along the therapeutic/educational continuum. The second new chapter discusses how to best use a supervisory process and set up and run a supervisory group.

Well known and widely used by social workers, psychologists, educationalists and youth workers, this popular text is suitable for all those working with groups.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

How to plan the group

chapter 2|22 pages

Leading and setting up the group

chapter 8|17 pages

The foundations of creative group work

chapter 9|19 pages

The skills of creative group work

chapter 10|21 pages

The techniques of creative group work

chapter 12|24 pages

Working more synthetically with the group

chapter 13|24 pages

Working with different types of group

chapter 14|15 pages

Setting up and running a supervisory group

chapter 15|15 pages

Keeping your practice going