Leading Psychoeducational Groups for Children and Adolescents (Paperback)

Key Features:

o Contains tables with references for related resources that practitioners may use for designing their groups, including materials that address critical issues and themes for the group, group sessions, activities, suggestions for effective groups, and assessment measures

o Provides guidance for the entire spectrum of activities related to leading groups, from planning to pre-group interviews and from initial sessions to termination sessions

o Offers practical suggestions for how effectively to use activities in group meetings and chronicles common mistakes to avoid

o Suggests methods for assessing group effectiveness as well as personal progress and need for further treatment Features multiple appendices containing examples of group planning and processing notes; group interest survey forms; an informational sheet for parents about psychoeducational groups; a group screening interview outline; a group preparation session outline; and consent forms

o Includes ASGW Professional Standards for Training of Group Workers, ASGW Best Practice Guidelines, and ASGW Principles for Diversity-Competent Group Workers

This text will be a helpful resource for students enrolled in courses in Counselling and Therapy of Children and Adolescents, in Social Group Work, and in Group Counselling for Education in departments of psychology, social work, and education.

About the Author
Janice L. DeLucia-Waack is currently an Associate Professor and Program Director for School Counseling in the Department of Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the former editor of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work, and is a fellow in the Association for Specialists in Group Work division of the American Counseling Association; and Division 49, Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, of the American Psychological Association. She is author/editor of two books, Using Music in Children of Divorce Groups:  A Session-By-Session Manual for Counselors and Multicultural Counseling and Training: Implications and Challenges for Practice, and co-editor/author of three other books: Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy (with Cynthia Kalodner, Maria Riva, and Deborah Gerrity), The Practice of Multicultural Group Work: Visions and Perspectives from the Field (with Jeremiah Donigian); and Group Work Experts Share Their Favorite Activities: A Guide to Choosing, Planning, Conducting, and Processing (with Karen Bridbord and Jennifer Kleiner).                

She received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Eisenhower College, a master’s degree in Family Studies from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University.

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