Skills and Techniques for Group Work With Youth

This how-to manual is a treasure chest packed with 24 specific skills and techniques that are essential to group work with children and adolescents.Content Highlights1 Professional Issues and Organizational Skills -- organizing the group experience, understanding the group process, using problem situations as learning experiences2 Leadership Skills -- activities and exercises, goal setting, dyads and triads, minimal prompts and turn signals, empathy, questioning, cutting off, drawing out, focusing3 Therapeutic Interaction Techniques -- contracting, feedback, role playing, progressive muscle relaxation, self-improvement homework, "I" statements, closing ritualsRecommended for any counselor or group leader who works with children or adolescents -- regardless of the issues that the group addresses or the setting and format of the group. An excellent college text.Smead, Rosemarie is the author of 'Skills and Techniques for Group Work With Youth', published 1995 under ISBN 9780878223527 and ISBN 0878223525.