Groups in Schools: Preparing, Leading, and Responding, CourseSmart eTextbook

Finally, a textbook that actually teaches students how to effectively lead counseling and classroom groups in schools!

 

This practical, user-friendly book contains the most relevant information critical to working with students in both classroom psychoeducational and counseling group work in schools. Building upon students’ and practitioners’ generalist preparation to lead groups, Group Work in Schools: Preparing, Leading, Responding offers readers numerous windows through which they can view the wide range of applicable rationales for group work, the preparation and skill sets required for confidence and success in conducting groups in schools, and the ‘nuts and bolts’ of group structure and form–enough to build their own groups.

Introduction

 

Group Planning and Organization

Goals

“Lesson Plans”

Physical Space

Group Activities

     Activity Selection

     Timing of Activities

     Processing Questions

Planning for Evaluation

     Questions

     Outcome Study Design and Data Sources

     Conclusions and Changes

 

Managing the Group: Establishing a Productive Learning Environment

     Leader Positioning

Group Climate

          Cohesiveness

             Interpersonal Learning

          Caring

          Safety, Challenge, Risk and Anxiety

            Leader Executive Function

     Preparing Students for Learning

     Rule and Norm-setting

Attention

              Minimize Distractions

     Clear Instructions

Withitness

Learning Map

     Meaning-making

          Spiral Learning

          Mental Models

          Personal Life Context

            Managing Content and Process Focus

     Intentionality

                  Using and Processing Activities

              Flexibility

              Interest

              Processing

          Assessing Learning Objectives

 

Responding to Problems in the Group

          General Guidelines

            Ignoring

            Cueing, re-focusing, and Proximity Control

            Dealing with Objects and Other Distractions

            Humor

            Hurdle Help

            Feedback Exchange and Group Problem Solving

            Restating the Rule

              Working with Choices

Using Consequences

     Natural Consequences

     Logical Consequences

Reasonable Consequences

General Guidelines for Working with Consequences

     Contracts

          Drafting the Contract

          Working with the Contract in the Group

     Unhooking from Power Struggles

     Using Time-Out

            De-escalation