The Essential Groupworker
Subtitle: Teaching and Learning Creative Groupwork
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781853028236
Subjects: Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Group Work; Social Science; Sociology - General; Sociology; Group Psychology; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Study and teaching; Social Work; Great Britain; Group counseling; Group relations training
First sentence: Groups are a central feature of human society.
Description: "Using activities to promote the reader's understanding and involvement. The Essential Groupworker describes how to plan, set up and maintain a working group. The authors look at the ways in which power and power relations, and individual and group identities influence the success or failure of a group. They show how to evaluate outcomes and apply knowledge gained through experience, and consider ways of approaching group endings."--BOOK JACKET.

"Written for students, practitioners and educators, The Essential Groupworker will stimulate effective and creative groupwork practice in a wide variety of settings."--BOOK JACKET.