ABSTRACT

Conducting Effective and Productive Psychoeducational and Therapy Groups offers a four-part structure designed to prepare future and beginning group leaders for the challenges that lie ahead: Getting Started, Encouraging Productivity, Troubleshooting/Problem Solving, and Closures. Along the way, readers will find practical, step-by-step instructions and guidance; activities to promote involvement, growth, and self-understanding; as well as processes and procedures to prevent and resolve difficult behaviors. Also included are 40+ activities, a typology of difficult member profiles, strategies to increase leader effectiveness, and a chapter on toxicity among groups as well as group members.

section I|56 pages

Getting Started

section II|50 pages

Encouraging Productivity

chapter 4|14 pages

Group Facilitation Skills

chapter 6|19 pages

Activities

Leader Self-Development, Relationship Building, Communication Skills Development, and Therapeutic Factors

section III|46 pages

Trouble Shooting/Problem Solving

chapter 7|15 pages

Culture and Diversity

chapter 9|16 pages

Individual Member Challenges

section IV|23 pages

Closure

chapter 10|21 pages

Activities and Closure