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Working with Children in Groups

A Handbook for Counsellors, Educators and Community Workers

  • Authors are well known in the area of counselling children

    Extremely accessibly written and highly practical format

    Contains materials which practitioners can photocopy or adapt and use in their own groups

    No direct competition

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Groups for Children

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Why run groups?

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 3-11
    3. Types of group

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 12-25
  3. Planning a Group Programme

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. Identifying the needs of a target group

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 29-47
    3. Planning to run a group

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 48-61
    4. Designing a group programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 62-75
  4. Running a Group Programme

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Assessment of children for inclusion in a group programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 79-97
    3. The leader’s role

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 98-116
    4. Evaluating the outcomes of a group programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 139-150
  5. Group Programmes for Particular Purposes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Introduction

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 153-167
    3. ADHD programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 168-179
    4. Self-esteem programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 180-194
    5. Social skills programme

      • Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
      Pages 195-211
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 212-262

About this book

With its effective outcomes, relative speed and reduced costs, the group format is becoming increasingly popular for work with children in counselling and educational settings.
Drawing from their extensive experience of running children's groups and training group leaders, Kathryn and David Geldard describe the entire process of running groups from the initial planning to post-group evaluation.Topics covered include the benefits and disadvantages of running groups and the types of group available, as well as the planning, designing, implementation and evaluation of group programmes.

Filled with lots of ideas, activities, games and work-sheets for use in group programmes, as well as examples of complete programmes for particular problems such as domestic violence and low self-esteem, this highly accessible and practical book will be an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to run groups for children.

About the authors

KATHRYN and DAVID GELDARD are authors of Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction and Counselling Adolescents: A Pro-Active Approach (both with Sage). They work as child and family therapists in private practice, and have extensive experience in running training courses in counselling children and adolescents and working with children in groups. Kathryn lectures in the post-graduate programme at the University of Queensland, Australia. David is a Counselling Psychologist, and is the author of Basic Personal Counselling: A Training Manual for Counsellors, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall and Free Association).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Working with Children in Groups

  • Book Subtitle: A Handbook for Counsellors, Educators and Community Workers

  • Authors: Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1459-0

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 272

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Family, Group and Systematic Therapy