Group Leadership Skills

This book provides skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. It can be applied to many situations -- support, psychotherapy or education groups, with groups of students or clients, in organizations or communities. It includes many simulated exercises to provide the necessary practice for leadership skills. This edition includes:

• New information on self-help support groups and computer-mediated groups
• More information on the history, theory, and research related to group process
• More information on group conflict, group problem-solving, group decision making, types of leadership, and team building
• A checklist for beginning a group
• Methods for warming up groups
• Methods for working with large groups

This book provides skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. It can be applied to many situations -- support, psychotherapy or education groups, with groups of students or clients, in organizations or communities. It includes many simulated exercises to provide the necessary practice for leadership skills. This edition includes:

• New information on self-help support groups and computer-mediated groups
• More information on the history, theory, and research related to group process
• More information on group conflict, group problem-solving, group decision making, types of leadership, and team building
• A checklist for beginning a group
• Methods for warming up groups
• Methods for working with large groups

Carolyn Chambers Clark, ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHNC, founded the Wellness Institute and now runs a website called Wellness and Relationship Resources at www.carolynchambersclark.com that provides continuing education materials, newsletters, seminars, and practice management consultation. As a certified advanced holistic nurse and mental health nurse practitioner, she has maintained a private practice with clients for more than 30 years, focusing on whole person wellness.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1980 and is an award-winning author who has conducted research and published widely on wellness, holistic, and self-care topics, including Wellness Practitioner, Integrating Complementary Procedures into Practice, Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches (Springer Publishing Company, 2001),Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses: Empower Yourself (and Others!) (Springer Publishing Company, 2003) and The Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice (Springer Publishing Company. 1999) She was also founding editor of the Alternative Health Practitioner: The Journal of Complementary and Natural Care and is the author of Group Leadership Skills (Springer Publishing Company, 2003), now in its fourth edition.