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Working more creatively with groups / Jarlath Benson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2010.Edition: 3rd. edDescription: viii, 278 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415482305
  • 9780415482301 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.4 BEN
Contents:
How to plan the group -- Leading and setting up the group -- An introduction to group dynamics and process -- Work at the beginning stages of the group: inclusion issues -- Work at the middle stages of the group: control issues -- Work at the later stages of the group: affection issues -- Work at the ending stage of the group: separation issues -- The foundations of creative groupwork -- The skills of creative groupwork -- The techniques of creative groupwork -- Working more intensively with groups: focus and context -- Working more synthetically with the group -- Working with different types of groups -- Setting up and running a supervisory group -- Keeping your practice going.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 361.4 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100507194
Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 361.4 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 39002100443994
Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 361.4 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 39002100444000
Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 361.4 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 4 Available 39002100658799

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 updatednbsp;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.

How to plan the group -- Leading and setting up the group -- An introduction to group dynamics and process -- Work at the beginning stages of the group: inclusion issues -- Work at the middle stages of the group: control issues -- Work at the later stages of the group: affection issues -- Work at the ending stage of the group: separation issues -- The foundations of creative groupwork -- The skills of creative groupwork -- The techniques of creative groupwork -- Working more intensively with groups: focus and context -- Working more synthetically with the group -- Working with different types of groups -- Setting up and running a supervisory group -- Keeping your practice going.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 How to plan the group
  • 2 Leading and setting up the group
  • 3 Working with different types of groups
  • 4 An introduction to group dynamics and process
  • 5 Work at the beginning stages of the group: inclusion issues
  • 6 Work at the middle stages of the group: control issues
  • 7 Work at the later stages of the group: affection issues
  • 8 Work at the ending stage of the group: separation issues
  • 9 The foundations of creative groupwork
  • 10 The skills of creative groupwork
  • 11 The techniques of creative groupwork
  • 12 Working more intensively with groups: focus and context
  • 13 Working more synthetically with the group
  • 14 Group supervision
  • 15 Keeping your practice going

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jarlath Benson is a psychotherapist and groupworker. He has been training students in groupwork for over twenty-five years.

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