Group Work: Processes and Applications

✍ Scribed by Bradley T. Erford (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The overriding theme of Group Work: Processes and Applications is a focus on the specialized group work that counselors perform from a systemic perspective in a multicultural context. This text briefly covers traditional theoretical approaches, focusing more on the techniques and applications of the approaches, but the core of the text involves the systemic approach to group work: preparing group leaders to facilitate the systemic group process, from planning the group through the four stages of group work: forming and orienting, transition, working, and termination. The content is aligned with 2016 CACREP standards. Numerous other techniques, covered, are linked with specific theoretical orientations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
About the Editor
About the Authors
Section 1: Foundations of Group Work
1 Introduction to Group Work: Historical Perspectives and Functional Group Models • Bradley T. Erford and Gerta Bardhoshi
2 Ethical and Legal Foundations of Group Work • Lynn E. Linde and Bradley T. Erford
3 Multicultural Issues in Group Work • Bradley T. Erford
4 Outcome Research in Group Work • Bradley T. Erford
5 Leading Groups • Amy Milsom
6 Distinguishing Group Member Roles • Carmen F. Salazar and George R. Leddick
Section 2: Systemic Group Work
7 Planning for Group Work • F. Robert Wilson and Michael D. Brubaker
8 Accountability in Group Work • Bradley T. Erford
9 Forming and Orienting Groups • Nathaniel N. Ivers and Rachel M. Carter
10 The Transition Stage in Group Work • Bradley T. Erford
11 The Working Stage • Kevin A. Fall and H. George McMahon
12 Termination • Catherine Y. Chang and Bradley T. Erford
13 Group Work Across the Lifespan • Bradley T. Erford
Section 3: Task and Psychoeducational Groups
14 Leading Task Groups • Bradley T. Erford
15 Leading Psychoeducational Groups • Sam Steen, Julia Bryan, and Norma L. Day-Vines
Section 4: Group Work in Action
16 Person-Centered and Existential Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Techniques, and Applications • Laura R. Haddock and Joel F. Diambra
17 The Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach to Group Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Techniques, and Applications • Bradley T. Erford
18 Reality Therapy, Solution-Focused, and Behavioral Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy Groups: Theories, Techniques, and Applications • Bradley T. Erford and Gerta Bardhoshi
19 Adlerian, Gestalt, and Psychodrama Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy Groups: Theory, Techniques, and Applications • Darcie Davis-Gage, Laura R. Haddock, and Bradley T. Erford
Epilogue • Gerta Bardhoshi and Bradley T. Erford
References
Index