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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|56 pages
Getting Started
section II|50 pages
Encouraging Productivity
chapter 6|19 pages
Activities
section III|46 pages
Trouble Shooting/Problem Solving
section IV|23 pages
Closure