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Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills |
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List Price: $96.95
Our Price: $83.25
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780495554363
ISBN: 0495554367
Label: Brooks Cole
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Studio: Brooks Cole
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This widely used and respected book presents an active, multisensory approach to group leading, focusing heavily on group leadership skills. While written with the counselor in mind, GROUP COUNSELING: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS, Sixth Edition, also provides an outstanding discussion of group dynamics for professionals in group leadership positions. The authors discuss the many facets of group counseling and provide examples that show how each skill can be applied in a wide range of group settings to produce efficient working groups.
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Summary: Basic and obvious
Comment: This book could have been a 10 page pamphlet. It was simplistic and boring, with very unrealistic dialogue. Not one of the people in my group counseling class a single good thing to say about it other than that it was cheaper than most of the books we have had to buy. Although every one of the other books I have bought for graduate school are staying on my shelf as references, this one is going straight up for resale.
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Summary: group counseling
Comment: This book is the best textbook. It is actually the first one I have read cover to cover. It will be a great resource and is exactly the same as the new edition! Thanks!
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Summary: Practical & Thorough
Comment: As a graduate student in a group dynamics class I found this book very practical and thorough. I like Yalom's interpersonal approach a lot too but I find that this book covers the nuts and bolts of groups really well.
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Summary: SLOW DELIVERY
Comment: I promptly emailed the company and told them that I ordered the wrong book. I asked them if there was any way for them to stop my order. They never replied and it still too 2 weeks for me to recieve my book. When I received my book there was not receipt or return address.
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Summary: Counseling groups? You probably need this!
Comment: Written in Jacobs's usual concise, never boring, and yet easy to read style, this informative text concerning group counseling provides all of the information a qualified counselor needs to plan, develop, and facilitate groups effectively. Jacobs's introduces group concepts within the integrative framework of Impact Therapy, a dynamic approach to counseling, incorporating theory and creative techniques, that he developed. His style, while not for everyone, provides the tools that a courageous counselor well-versed in theory can use to facilitate client movement.
I have studied with Dr. Jacobs, and so quickly realized these are the very same techniques he uses to run his Theories and Techniques classes. I know they work because there is never a moment in class that feels wasted, and it is never boring. My experience has been that class is generally over long before you want it to be.
Recently, I was developing a group proposal as a requirement of a group counseling class I took this summer. I had read the Corey book on groups, had the benefit of a semester's worth of lectures, had been through 40 or 50 additional publications/articles. I had all of this information and I had an idea, and yet I was struggling on exactly how to go about putting this proposal together. I had recently received the Jacobs book, but only had time to read the first couple of chapters, so I picked it up, flipped to the chapter on planning groups, and withing 20 pages my pen was flying as I scribbled notes organizing my project. Two chapters later, all I had left to do was type the formal proposal.
The book is filled with practical ideas presented in an uncomplicated manner that allows for immediate practical application. I highly recommend it!
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