Group Exercises for Adolescents: A Manual for Therapists

By Susan E. Carrell

Book Overview

How can therapists overcome resistance and harness peer acceptance when working with adolescent groups? Group exercises are often used, but where can a therapist find properly conceived, well-designed exercises that will enable adolescents to disclose emotional material which is otherwise difficult to express? A resource for educators, mental health professionals, juvenile justice staff, or agencies and institutions working with adolescents, Group Exercises for Adolescents gives the group facilitator 25 user-friendly exercises. If you are developing a new program, revitalizing an existing one, or in need of one-time group experiences, this manual is for you. It addresses all the hot issues--sex, alcohol, drugs, family dynamics, self-esteem, anger--and more. The manual also discusses both behavioral and cognitive objectives and explores potential blunders or obstacles and their possible solutions. An invaluable tool that avoids the usual "psychobabble," Group Exercises for Adolescents is a no-nonsense guide that provides a complete group program for therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals who work with adolescents. Also featured as an alternate selection by the Behavioral Science Book Service. "This book arose out of Susan Carrell′s expertise and out of her need to have a collection of useful group exercises available in a single manual. Her enthusiasm for her work with adolescents in groups is evident throughout Group Exercises for Adolescents, which is a useful tool for clinicians, educators, and students. . . . Group Exercises for Adolescents is quite readable and an important resource for a range of professionals and students in social work and related human behavior programs. The author shares her enjoyment of working with adolescents and offers a refreshing approach to empowerment under a model of humanism instead of control or correction." --Social Work with Groups "The writing is highly readable and truly conveys Carrell′s respect and enjoyment of working with adolescents. Clearly, she is very much in touch with the difficult process of living through teen years. I particularly enjoyed her sense of humor and personal anecdotes. As a therapist for more than 12 years, I found that the learning process within the therapy session never seems to end and to read Carrell′s honesty in referencing her ′blunders′ and how it helped her learn and grow as a therapist made her all the more human." --Jan Fieda, Private Practice

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803952929
• ISBN13: 9780803952928
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"