Product Description

This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Group Exercises for Adolescents, Second Edition contains six new exercises, together with a chapter on working with specialized groups. Therapists looking for new "tried and tested" activities to help them reach the difficult client group of adolescents will welcome this manual.

The "how to" manual provides both the foundation upon which to build for therapists new to groupwork and a fresh approach for experienced practitioners. It covers issues central to adolescence, including sex, emotionality, and family dynamics. Behavioral and cognitive objectives for each exercise are included, together with examinations of possible pitfalls and problems. The manual provides a complete group program and can stand alone, or it can supplement an existing program.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61848 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 200 pages

Customer Reviews

Valuable resource book
I work with teens and have to conduct therapy groups. This is a nice resource with many ideas. It is easy for counselors to use.

Wow. This is a fantastic manual!
As a just-starting-out CD Counselor, working with some high risk adolescents in an outpatient environment, I was seeking ideas for groups and activities that would help me with my "kids." This book delivers on that, and then some. The activities are clear, age appropriate, and offer enough detail that they could be followed as is, but are flexible enough that I'm having no trouble adapting them in a myriad of ways. Susan Carrell is fantastic, and I look forward to finding more from her!

Limited in scope
The exercises are good, but limited in number. I've also had problems with the exercises appealing to a wide range of kids. The book is useful, and the philosophy that teens are doing their job by having their developmental crises is a positive change from the "disaster" of adolescence that we hear so much about. I would recommend it for those working with basically high-functioning kids with "normal" kinds of difficulties/crises.