The Gamester's Handbook 3 features up-to-date activities and new games for skills and issues that are important today. It includes information on specific aims and principles behind the games to tailor them to individual group requirements.

Gamester's Handbook 2 is a collection of 89 tried-and-tested games for developing self-awareness, confidence, decision-making skills, trust, assertiveness and just for fun. These games can help social inadequacy by developing co-operation within groups. Each activity promotes effective communication, particularly important with shy people who need additional encouragement. The 'role playing' aspects of many games provide the security which enables group members to develop their ideas and express themselves.

The games in this book offer a valuable source of activities, exercises and strategies for parents, group leaders, people planning parties, travellers or anyone wishing to enliven any occasion they choose. These games are accessible to all, as they can be used with different levels of skill. The ability of many of our games to help people relax socially on both a one-to-one basis and with a group, encourages the use of games by teachers and group leaders. Accompanying notes are provided, outlining the value of the game in different developmental directions.

The Teacher's Toolkit provides an overview of recent thinking innovations in teaching and presents over fifty learning techniques for all subjects and age groups, with dozens of practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavioural issues and promoting personal responsibility. It also presents tools for checking your teaching skills - from lesson planning to performance management.

Designed as a primary resource for all teachers in higher education, this fully photocopiable guide includes coverage of: small-group teaching; assessment techniques; using student feedback; developing your career; and refreshment tips. The A4 ring-binder includes pro-formas, work-sheets, digests of tips and integrated overview sections for staff developers.

The social work degree requires that students clearly demonstrate competence in working with groups. Many social work students will begin working with families, communities and organisations before they qualify and are regularly assessed on this groupwork practice through assignments and observation. Specialist skills are needed to cope in challenging groups and the authors look at how students can develop their existing skills to cope and respond to challenges. The practical focus of this book on planning, organising, facilitating and evaluating groupwork will help students to develop their skills and pass assessment, increasing confidence during placement groupwork activities. A practical and accessible textbook, Groupwork Practice in Social Work is essential reading to help students through their complex and challenging Groupwork assessments. Key updates: New material on working with service user groups New material for students who are being assessed in a group Updated case studies This book is in the Transforming Social Work Practice series. All books in the series are affordable, mapped to the Social Work Curriculum, practical with clear links between theory & practice and written to the Professional Capabilities Framework.