Group Work: Processes and Applications

The overriding theme of Group Work: Processes and Applications is a focus on the specialized group work that counselors perform from a systemic perspective in a multicultural context. This text briefly covers traditional theoretical approaches, focusing more on the techniques and applications of the approaches, but the core of the text involves the systemic approach to group work: preparing group leaders to facilitate the systemic group process, from planning the group through the four stages of group work: forming and orienting, transition, working, and termination. The content is aligned with 2016 CACREP standards. Numerous other techniques, covered, are linked with specific theoretical orientations.

PowerPoints and Instructor’s manual are on the way and should be available in the next 2-3 months.

Bradley T. Erford, Phd is a professor in the human development counselling program of the Department of Human and Organizational Development in the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. He was the 2012-2013 President of the American Counseling Association (ACA). He has authored or edited more than 30 books. His research specialization falls primarily in development and technical analysis of psycho-educational tests and outcomes research and has resulted in the publication of more than 75 refereed journal articles, more than 100 book chapters, and 15 published tests. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship and service to the counselling profession from the ACA and the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC), organizations within which he has held numerous leadership positions.