Practical Handbook of Group Counseling: Group work with Children,

The Practical Handbook of Group Counseling is written mainly as a primer to be used in group work with children, adolescents, and parents. The first edition was used by over three hundred colleges, universities and public school systems in the United States. Its unique design allows the reader to use it as a ready reference for practical information. It is presented as a text that can challenge the individual s ideas and upon which the counselor can develop techniques that will fit his/her personality and meet the needs of the group. The text was the first comprehensive practical book in this field. It is a synthesis of the various problems and successes that the counselor may encounter and offers one model that may be useful in resolving and/or enhancing some of these issues. The author utilizes the public school setting as the vehicle for presenting his material. Since the school is a cross section of the population, the model proposed here can be adapted to other social agencies that utilize group counseling techniques. Group counseling can be a very useful technique in the school program. It has been used in different school settings for various purposes. Counselors, teachers and administrators have used it with above-average children with leadership skills, average children, potential dropouts, under-achievers, disruptive children, developmentally-disabled children, adolescent pregnant girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, and