This is the sequel to the Association for Specialists in Group Work's best-selling group activity book Group Work Experts Share Their Favorite Activities. Volume 2 offers more than 50 new and improved activities that can be implemented in a variety of practice settings. In this book, group workers from around the world offer step-by-step instructions for facilitating and processing group activities for work in clinical mental health settings, community organizations and agencies, student affairs, and counselor education. Among the topics addressed are group work with adults, children, and adolescents; couples and families; LGBT populations; college students; people with addictions; counselors-in-training; immigrants; and more. Descriptions of each activity include the target population, rationale for conducting the group, materials needed, goals, directions for implementation, sample processing questions, potential adaptations of the exercise, and specific references or resources. In addition, succinct chapters discuss considerations for both beginning and advanced group workers. This one-of-a-kind book is characterized by a practical approach to facilitating psychoeducational, task, counseling, and therapy-related groups.

This book was sponsored by the Association for Specialists in Group Work to share the favorite multicultural group activities from leading experts in group work. Dozens of activities are outlined along with many handouts.

Any intentional group is based on a coherent group plan. This book will identify the elements that are basic to any plan and will apply these elements within an ongoing example. Among the elements to be included are: Identifying the Population, Need and Environmental Assessment, Goals, Rationale for Using Group, Type of Group, Conceptual Framework Used, attention to Group Developmental stage and to Group Dynamics, Group Size, Group Composition, Session-by-Session plans, Evaluation Methodology.

The third edition of Group Work in Schools is designed to prepare counselors in school settings to successfully implement task, psycho-educational, and counseling groups in public and private educational settings. The chapters of this book are written by experts in the counseling profession and cover foundational, systemic, and applied topics essential to training top-caliber school counselors. Providing state of practice information and case examples that help readers see how theory translates to practice in the field, additions to this newly updated third edition include discussion topics, activities, case examples, practitioner perspectives, and integrated CACREP (2024) standards and learning outcomes, as well as an overall update to reflect the most recent research and knowledge, including pandemic coverage and advances in technology. Updated comprehensively and thoughtfully and featuring a wide range of contributor perspectives, the much-anticipated third edition of this book is essential reading for school counselors-in-training.

This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents. Further, this volume illustrates the application of these models to work with the youth of today, whether victims of trauma, adolescents struggling with LGBT issues, or youth with varying common diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorders, depression, and anxiety. It offers chapters presenting a variety of clinical approaches written by experts in these approaches, from classic (play therapy and dialectical behavior therapy) to cutting-edge (attachment-based intervention, mindfulness, and sensorimotor psychotherapy). Because of its broad scope, the book is suitable for a wide audience, from students to first-time group leaders to seasoned practitioners.

The overriding theme of Group Work: Processes and Applications is a focus on the specialized group work that counselors perform from a systemic perspective in a multicultural context. This text briefly covers traditional theoretical approaches, focusing more on the techniques and applications of the approaches, but the core of the text involves the systemic approach to group work: preparing group leaders to facilitate the systemic group process, from planning the group through the four stages of group work: forming and orienting, transition, working, and termination. The content is aligned with 2016 CACREP standards. Numerous other techniques, covered, are linked with specific theoretical orientations. PowerPoints and Instructor’s manual are on the way and should be available in the next 2-3 months.