While understanding theory and research is vital, future group counselors and therapists must also know how to apply that theory and how to use research findings. This new workbook helps teach just that, through interesting, practical, real-life exercises that involve all of the types of groups a counselor might lead - task/work, psycho-educational, counseling, and psychotherapy. Through its exercises, students encounter school-age adolescents, mental health outpatients, parents, community members, and others with whom a group worker might work. Prompts and activities encourage them to reflect on class presentations and experiential activities; and help them better absorb the lessons of their core text.

• Organization of material into stand-alone sections.

  • Allows instructors to custom-create a “course” based on the workbook.

• Treatment of diversity issues—Enfolded into numerous exercises and examples.

  • Illustrates a variety of situations in which multicultural sensitivity and awareness is crucial to successful outcomes.

• Excerpts from real group transcripts—Illustrate the wide range of venues for group work.

  • Lets students experiment with a range of responses to situations and individual concerns—simulates actual group leadership work.

• Case studies drawn from actual author experience—Create believable scenarios with the stamp of authenticity.

  • Familiarizes students with the kind of situations and individuals they will encounter in their work.

• Mini-Quizzes, Concept Checks, and Issues to Consider sections—Provide hands-on involvement with concepts, theories, and techniques of group work.

  • Gives students a true feel for how groups work and how group leaders facilitate them.

• Open vignettes—Ask students to integrate the whole of what they are learning, and apply that whole to specific situations.

  • Assists instructors to assess students on their understanding of the “big picture,” not just on micro-skills and content-specific questions.

• Perforated, tear-out pages.

  • Allows students to easily share work with instructors and classmates.

 1. Exercises in Aspects of Group Development.


 2. Exercises in Group Work Throughout the Life Span.


 3. Exercises in Leading Groups from Different Theoretical Perspectives.


Glossary.

Kurt L. Kraus is an Assistant Professor of Counseling in the Department of Counseling at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Kurt received his doctorate from the University of Maine. He has held professional positions as a counselor in schools for grades k-12; and in community-based, hospital, and private practice. Prior to beginning his counseling and counselor educator career in 1987, Kurt taught English. He also taught adolescents with special needs in both public schools and in residential treatment. Dr. Kraus is an active member of the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and the American Counseling Association (ACA). He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, a Nationally Certified a Counselor and an Approved Clinical Supervisor. Kurt has professional interests in the areas of group work, counseling adolescents, clinical supervision, and ethics. He is the current chairperson of the school counseling program at Shippensburg and chair of the University's Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Research.

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