Description
Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Samuel T. Gladding is a Professor of Counseling at Wake Forest University as well as a Fellow and a past president of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Gladding is the author of a number of Pearson books including Family Therapy: History, Theories and Practice, 7th Edition (2019) and Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, 8th Edition (2018). Gladding is also the author of several American Counseling Association texts, including the Counseling Dictionary, 4th Edition (2018) and the Creative Arts in Counseling, 5th Edition (2016). In addition to writing, Dr. Gladding has been a Fulbright Specialist to China and Turkey, and has taught counseling courses in Austria, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Ireland and Estonia. He has taken students to study mental health and creativity in South Africa and Denmark and has researched the relationship between humor and mental health at Oxford. Gladding is married to Claire Ti
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
- Types of Groups and Group Work
- Group Dynamics
- Effective Group Leadership
- Forming a Group
- The Transition Period in a Group: Storming and Norming
- The Working Stage in a Group: Performing
- Closing a Group
- Diversity and Social Justice in Group Work
- Specialty Groups and Creativity in Groups
- Ethical and Legal Aspects of Working with Groups
- Groups for Children
- Groups for Adolescents
- Groups for Adults
- Groups for Older Adults
- Reality Therapy, Adlerian, and Person-centered Groups
- Existential, Gestalt, Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Transactional Analysis Groups
- Solution-focused, Narrative, and Psychodrama Groups
- History of Group Work
Appendix A: Some Prominent Self-Help Group Organizations
