Andrew Malekoff

Group Work with Adolescents (eBook, ePUB)

Principles and Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents. In an accessible, down-to-earth style, Andrew Malekoff spells out the principles of effective group practice. Extensive clinical illustrations show how successful group leaders engage teens in addressing tough issues--including violence, sexuality, prejudice, social isolation, and substance abuse--in a wide range of settings. Normative issues that adolescents face in the multiple contexts of their lives are lucidly explained. Packed with creative ideas and activities, the book helps readers develop their skills as confident, reflective practitioners.

New to This Edition
*Significantly revised chapters on group work essentials, school-based practice, and trauma.
*Additional topics: social media and cyberbullying, expressive and animal-assisted therapies, mindfulness, adolescent brain development, and more.
*Updated practice principles, information, and references.
*Numerous new practice illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781462516100
• Artikelnr.: 49556761

Autorenporträt

Andrew Malekoff, MSW, LCSW, CASAC, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center,Roslyn Heights, NY

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Adolescent in Context
1. Adolescent Development, Risk, and Opportunity
2. Essentials for Group Work with Adolescents: Staying in the Mess
II. Guidelines for Group Building
3. Strengths-Based Group Work with Adolescents
4. Planning in Group Work: Where We Begin
5. Good Beginnings in Group Work: Socializing Adolescents into the Group
Culture
6. What's Going On in There?: Forming Alliances with Parents Whose
Adolescent Children Join Groups
7. School-Based Group Work with Adolescents: A View from the Inside Out
8. Problem Solving in Group Work
9. The Purposeful Use of Activities in Group Work: Innovative, Expressive,
and Mindful Approaches
10. The Ending Transition in Group Work
III. Contemporary and Age-Old Themes in Group Work: Guidelines,
Applications, and Practice Illustrations
11. Addressing Racial and Ethnic Diversity through Group Work
12. Violence and Youth: Dimensions and Interventions in Group Work
13. Group Work in the Aftermath of Traumatic Events
14. Adolescent Sexuality and Group Work
15. Group Work as a Counterforce to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
IV. Special Challenges for Group Workers
16. The Struggle to Fit In
17. On Becoming a Reflective Group Worker