Solution-focused groupwork

"1. Groupwork and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy -- 2. The Principles of Solution-Focused Groupwork -- 3. The Dynamics of Solution-Focused Groups -- 4. Designing a Solution-Focused Group -- 5. Engaging and Motivating Client s to Attend -- 6. The Stages of Solution-Focused Groupwork -- 7. Evaluating Groups: Ensuring They Remain on Target -- 8. Managing 'Difficult' Groups -- 9. Creative Exercises to Enhance Group Process -- 10. Group Supervision - A Solution-Focused Reflecting Team Model"

"A highly practical guide for all professionals who use groups to help people."
"The author examines the therapeutic factors that characterize solution- focused groupwork and contribute to its effectiveness. Using carefully selected case studies and examples, he takes the reader through the various stages in the therapeutic process, from getting started to the final session. The book also provides creative exercises for use in practice, guidance on evaluating the outcomes of group work and also a model for group supervision for the facilitator. A real strength of the book is in showing practitioners how to create a constructive, positive, and solution-focused group culture and how to maintain this culture in spite of the challenges, tensions, and difficulties that naturally arise within groups."
"Solution-Focused Groupwork, Second Edition is an innovative and highly practical guide for all professionals who use groups to help people. For those new to the approach it provides a clear, step-by-step introduction, while for more experienced practitioners it presents ideas and techniques which can be readily integrated into existing practice. In this fully updated revision, including a brand new chapter on Supervision, John Sharry examines the therapeutic factors that characterize solution- focused groupwork and contribute to its effectiveness. Using carefully selected case studies a."@en