Facilitating Challenging Groups

Facilitating Challenging Groups offers activities, tools, tips, and techniques vital to everyone from the smallest self-help group to the largest human-relations training session.

Nina Brown, EdD, LPC, FAGPA, is pofessor and eminent scholar of counseling at Old Dominion University. She is a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the author of dozens of books, including Creative Activities for Group Therapy and Psychoeducational Groups, 3rd ed.

Part I: The Challenges, 1. Meeting the Challenge, Part II: Open Groups, 2. Open Groups, 3.Issues, Concerns, and Possible Strategies, 4. Planning Open Groups, 5. Facilitative Skills and Techniques, Part III: Leaderless Groups, 6. Variations for Leaderless Groups, 7. Self-help and Support Groups, 8. Guidelines for Leaderless Groups, IV. Single-Session Groups, 9. Single Sessions, 10. Variations for Single-Session Groups, 11. Managing Premature Termination, Part V. Activities, 12. Activities, 13. Getting Started, 14. Building Self-esteem and Self-confidence, 15. Relationship Building and Enhancement, 16. Communication Skills, 17. Termination