This comprehensive handbook aims to serve as a major resource for all those involved in group work with children and adolescents. Bringing together the skills, practical experience and expertise of a wide range of contributors, it provides comprehensive analysis and practical guidance on all aspects of the subject under five broad headings: theoretical and practical issues - including structures and organizational aspects, conceptual frameworks and evaluation; developmental perspective - including emotional development, empathy and prosocial development and the historical development of group psychotherapy; tools and techniques - including the use of play and games, art psychotherapy, relaxation, drama and interpretation; subjects and themes - including bereaved children, encopresis, victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, young offenders and racial identity; contexts and settings - including group work in schools, residential institutions, mental health services, youth services and therapeutic communities.
Part 1 Overview of theoretical and practical issues: introduction, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; structional and organizational aspects, Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Suzanne Lawton and Sarah Hogan; conceptual frameworks, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; evaluation, Kedar Nath Dwivedi and Diddy Mymin. Part 2 Developmental perspectives: developmental needs and considerations for therapeutic provisions, Peter Harper; emotional development, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; empathy and prosocial development, Malcolm Walley; historical development of group psychotherapy, Patrick McGrath. Part 3 Tools and techniques: play, activities, exercises and games, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; art psychotherapy groups, Tessa Dalley; relaxation, visulization and nourishment, Fredi Harrison; use of drama, Cherry Stephenson; use of interpretation, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. Part 4 Subjects and themes: bereaved children and adolescents, Sue Smith and Sister Margaret Pennells; encopresis, Kedar Nath Dwivedi and Sue Bell; victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, Andrew Howard; young offenders, Julie Harrower; race identity and culture, Barbara Coward. Part 5 Contexts and settings: group work in schools, Carol Coppock, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; group work in residential child care, Bernie Evans and Paul Cook; group work in child mental health services, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; group work in the youth service, Janet Adams; groupwork with children and adolescents in a therapeutic community, Jane Wright-Watson.
This book should provide a useful introduction to group work with disadvantaged children and those suffering from a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties... Makes accessible the growing literature on group work with children and should provide encouragement to those of us who are already working with groups of children and inspiration for those who wish to make a start.
