Working with Children in Groups: a Handbook for Counsellors, Educators & Community Workers
Author(s): Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard
With its effective outcomes, relative speed and reduced costs, the group format is becoming increasingly popular for work with children in counselling and educational settings. Drawing from their extensive experience of running childrens groups and training group leaders, Kathryn and David Geldard describe the entire process of running groups from the initial planning to post-group evaluation.
Topics covered include the benefits and disadvantages of running groups and the types of group available, as well as the planning, designing, implementation and evaluation of group programmes. Filled with lots of ideas, activities, games and work sheets for use in group programmes, as well as examples of complete programmes for particular problems such as domestic violence and low self esteem, this accessible and practical book should be an valuable resource for anyone wishing to run groups for children.
Accessible and practical, from the capable Australian duo whose books Counselling Children and Counselling Adolescents are often used in New Zealand.
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KATHRYN and DAVID GELDARD are authors of Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction and Counselling Adolescents: A Pro-Active Approach. They work as child and family therapists in private practice, and have extensive experience in running training courses in counselling children and adolescents and working with children in groups.
Kathryn lectures in the post-graduate programme at the University of Queensland, Australia.
David is a Counselling Psychologist, and is the author of Basic Personal Counselling: A Training Manual for Counsellors.
PART I: GROUPS FOR CHILDREN Why Run Groups? Types of Group PART II: PLANNING A GROUP PROGRAMME Identifying the Needs of a Target Group Planning to Run a Group Designing a Group Programme PART III: RUNNING A GROUP PROGRAMME Assessment of Children for Inclusion in a Group Programme The Leader's Role Counselling and Racilitation Skills Required in Children's Groups Evaluating the Outcomes of a Group Programme PART IV: GROUP PROGRAMMES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES Domestic Violence Programme ADHD Programme Self-esteem Programme Social skills Programme APPENDICES Activities and Games Work-sheets
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- : Palgrave Macmillan Limited
- : Palgrave Macmillan
- : 0.427
- : 27 March 2001
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 15.7 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 362.204256083
- : 272