Therapeutic Groupwork with Children

Author: Joost Drost
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351372408
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
This hands-on workbook is an invaluable resource for all professionals who work with young children, both in clinics and schools, including teachers, activity leaders and therapists. It provides an overview of the book's basis in humanistic philosophy, a discussion of the role of group leaders and how to start and run a group. It contains 40 varied group activities, some original and some more well known, each with clear guidelines, photocopiable worksheets and anecdotal evaluations. Guidance is given on how to use the activities in a pick-and-mix approach, with a gradual build up from simple listening and turn-taking exercises to empathy, problem-solving and dealing with emotions. Divided into activities for infants and juniors, they are designed to use different strengths within the children, including verbal, non-verbal, trust, imagination and physical. Using these activities in a group setting will create an environment, where children feel listened to, accepted and valued, and in which they can grow emotionally.

Skills and Techniques for Group Work with Children and Adolescents

Author: Rosemarie Smead
Publisher: Research Press (IL)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Rosemarie Smead presents strategies for selecting children for participation in group guidance and counseling, shows how to conduct sessions, and identifies successful techniques for group counseling.

Group Work with Children and Adolescents

Author: Kedar Nath Dwivedi
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781853021572
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
This comprehensive handbook will be a major resource for all those involved in group work with children and adolescents. Bringing together the skills, practical experience and expertise of a wide range of contributors, it provides comprehensive analysis and practical guidance on all aspects of the subject under five broad headings: theoretical and practical issues, including structures and organisational aspects, conceptual frameworks and evaluation; developmental perspectives, including emotional development, empathy and prosocial development and the historical development of group psychotherapy; tools and techniques, including the use of play and games, art psychotherapy, relaxation, drama and interpretation; subjects and themes, including bereaved children, encopresis, victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, young offenders and racial identity; and contexts and settings, including group work in schools, residential institutions, mental health services, youth services and therapeutic communities. The book will meet the needs of both beginners in the field, and those with experience.

Music Therapy Groupwork with Special Needs Children

Author: Karen D. Goodman
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description

Group Counseling and Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents

Author: Zipora Shechtman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351564870
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Many children and adolescents face developmental or situational difficulties in areas where they live most of their meaningful experiences-at home, at school, and in the community. While adults who struggle with life events and stressors may look to professional help, young individuals are quite alone in coping with these situations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most children and adolescents typically do not seek such help, and often resist it when offered. Author Zipora Shechtman has written this detailed text advocating group counseling and psychotherapy as a viable means of addressing these issues if we are to ensure the psychological wellness of children in society. Group Counseling and Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents is arranged in four parts. Its chapters explore topics including: *who needs group counseling and psychotherapy; *therapeutic factors in children's groups; *activities in the group; *pre-group planning and forming a group; and *how to enhance emotional experiencing and group support. This text is a principal source of information for counseling psychology students, researchers, and practitioners working with young people, in addition to social workers, teachers, and parents.

Leading Psychoeducational Groups for Children and Adolescents

Author: Janice L. DeLucia-Waack
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1452237514
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
This book provides readers with direction on how to organize psychoeducational groups while also helping them enhance skills for effectively leading such groups—all in one comprehensive volume! Offering an applied, pragmatic approach, author Janice L. DeLucia-Waack uniquely integrates research and practice to suggest valuable leadership strategies while addressing special issues such as children of divorce, anger management, bullying behaviors, and much more.

Group Work with Sexually Abused Children

Author: Lynn Grotsky
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9780761920793
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
This easy-to-follow manual presents techniques for working with groups of children who have been sexually abused. It begins with an overview of the theory and literature of group therapy with children and then offers seven sections on psycho-social skill building techniques, trust building, self esteem, identifying and expressing feelings, healing the inner child, relationships, boundary setting, and prevention skills.

Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children

Author: Charles E. Schaefer
Publisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
This comprehensive manual offers specific how-to guidelines for conducting a wide range of psychotherapy groups and detailed session-by-session descriptions of sixteen structured group interventions. Time-limited, structured, educational, and goal-oriented, these groups focus on such core treatment issues as separation and divorce, alcoholism, bereavement, sexual abuse, fears and anxieties, anger management, weight loss, and encopresis.

Group Work with Children and Adolescents

Author: Steven R. Rose
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761901617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
A practical volume for the helping professions, Group Work With Children and Adolescents will be highly valuable to those practicing in the fields of social work, human services, clinical and counseling psychology, and psychiatric nursing.

Groupwork With Children and Adolescents

Author: Ralph L Kolodny
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317735315
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This state-of-the-art information on social groupwork with children and youth provides theoretical guidelines and suggestions for practice. Each authoritative chapter represents a blending of old and new practice models and syntheses of various knowledge perspectives and emphasizes the subtlety and unpredictability of groupwork. Experts addresses the issues of getting groups started, adapting group programs to the needs of younger school-age children, and using group therapy with young abused and neglected girls. They also include specific observations about the psychic and social developmental characteristics of the age groupings as a guiding factor in choosing group models and intervention techniques. Topics discussed include aspects of group dynamics, group techniques, resistance, stages in group development, and developmental issues of group members.