Group leadership skills
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Bibliographic Information
Group leadership skills
Springer Pub., c2003
4th ed
Available at 11 libraries
Note
Rev. ed. of: The nurse as group leader / Carolyn Clark Chambers. 3rd ed. 1994
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. It can be applied to many situations - support, psychotherapy or education groups, with groups of students or clients, in organizations or communities. It includes many simulated exercises to provide the necessary practice for leadership skills. This edition includes: new information on self-help support groups and computer-mediated groups; more information on the history, theory, and research related to group process; more information on group conflict, group problem-solving, group decision making, types of leadership, and team building; a checklist for beginning a group; methods for warming up groups; and methods for working with large groups.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to group work
- basic group concepts and process
- working to achieve group goals
- special group problems
- beginning, guiding and terminating the group
- supervision of group leaders and co-leadership
- behavioural approaches for group leaders
- recording and analysing group process
- groups for the older adult
- working with focal and focus groups
- when the organization is the group
- when the community is the group.
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