Group Leadership Skills for Nurses and Health Professionals

by Clark, Carolyn Chambers

• ISBN13: 9780826104588
• ISBN10: 0826104584
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Pub Co

Summary

Group Leadership Skills provides a solid foundation for using group concepts, theory, and research with a wide variety of groups and group settings. With this book, nurses and health professionals will learn the essential group process skills, including differentiating content from process, working with tension and anxiety, and enhancing cohesiveness. Clark presents practical strategies to improve the effectiveness of group leaders, such as helping groups solve problems and build teams.

Table of Contents

To Learners and Faculty	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Learning Group Basics	p. 1
Introducing You to Group Work	p. 3
Why Groups Are Important	p. 3
The Group and Systems Theory	p. 4
Types of Groups	p. 5
Concerns of All Group Leaders	p. 11
Qualities of an Effective Group Leader	p. 12
Effective and Ineffective Groups	p. 15
Ways of Learning About Group Function	p. 16
Simulated Exercises	p. 19
Using Basic Group Concepts and Process	p. 27
Group Process Theories and Research	p. 27
Group Content and Process	p. 32
Tension and Anxiety in the Group	p. 34
Group Conflict	p. 39
Group Apathy	p. 59
Norms and Cohesiveness	p. 60
Themes	p. 63
Simulated Exercises	p. 64
Working to Achieve Group Goals	p. 73
Phases of Group Movement	p. 73
Decision Making and Problem Solving	p. 77
Leadership Skills	p. 84
Team Building and Cohesiveness	p. 87
Postmeeting Reaction Form	p. 91
Planned Change	p. 92
Simulated Exercises	p. 102
Beginning and Guiding Groups	p. 111
Beginning, Guiding, and Terminating a Group	p. 113
Premeeting Preparation	p. 113
Early Group Meetings	p. 121
Guiding the Group	p. 130
Terminating the Group	p. 133
Simulated Exercises	p. 134
Dealing With Special Group Problems	p. 145
Monopolizing	p. 145
Scapegoating	p. 148
Silence	p. 149
New Members	p. 150
Transference and Countertransference	p. 151
Physical Aggression	p. 152
Nonverbal Groups or Group Members	p. 154
Absences	p. 156
Manipulation	p. 156
Simulated Exercises	p. 157
Developing Group Leadership Skills	p. 163
Obtaining Supervision and Working With a Coleader	p. 165
Developing Skills as a Supervisor	p. 165
Developing Skills as a Coleader	p. 174
Simulated Exercises	p. 178
Using Behavioral Approaches	p. 185
Assertiveness	p. 186
Changing Unwanted Habits	p. 187
Increasing Cooperative Behaviors	p. 188
Working With Parents	p. 192
Simulated Exercises	p. 193
Recording and Analyzing Group Process	p. 199
Recording Methods	p. 199
The Group Recording Guide	p. 203
Events	p. 204
Analysis of Events	p. 207
Evaluation of Leader Action	p. 208
Alternative Actions	p. 209
Using Recordings	p. 210
Sample Recordings and Evaluations	p. 214
Simulated Exercise	p. 231
Working with Different Types of Groups	p. 235
Working With the Older Adult	p. 237
The Older Adult Population Grows	p. 237
Group Work With Depressed Older Adults	p. 240
Reality Orientation	p. 242
Remotivation Therapy	p. 243
Health Promotion Groups	p. 245
Writing Groups in Nursing Homes	p. 248
Guided Autobiography With Older Adults	p. 249
Creative Communication Groups	p. 250
Leadership Training for the Retired	p. 251
Life Review Groups	p. 253
Older Adult Group Simulated Exercise	p. 256
Working With Focal Groups	p. 259
Codependency Groups	p. 259
Focal Groups for Specific Problems or Conditions	p. 261
Focus Groups	p. 285
Focus Group Research	p. 297
Simulated Exercises	p. 299
Working With Organizations	p. 307
The Highly Creative Organization	p. 307
Diagnosing Organizational Systems	p. 308
Organizational Interventions	p. 309
Recognizing and Overcoming Barriers to Change	p. 311
Conducting Interactions and "Doings"	p. 313
Lead From Within	p. 321
Power and Politics in Organizations	p. 322
Healing Betrayal of Trust	p. 324
Simulated Exercise	p. 325
Working With Communities	p. 329
Community Organization	p. 329
A Wellness View of Community	p. 330
Community Assessment	p. 340
Examples of Community Organization Efforts and Research	p. 344
Organizational Leadership Simulated Exercise	p. 349
Glossary	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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