Groups: Process and Practice

In this practical manual, the Coreys draw on their extensive clinical experience in leading groups and training group leaders to provide a hands-on resource full of examples, guidelines, perceptions, insights, and ideas on both the UUhow toUU and the UUwhyUU of group counseling. Well known for a down-to-earth, personal writing style and clear, straightforward presentation of basic issues and processes, this book and Corey's Theory & Practice of Group Counseling were rated the two most widely used group texts in a survey conducted by Sampson and Liberty in the December 1989 issue of Counselor Education & Supervision...Included in discussion are: practical strategies that can help create and maintain trust in groups; ways to deal therapeutically with the many forms of resistance leaders encounter; strategies for helping group members translate what they learn in groups to their everyday lives; ethical issues and problems that can arise in group work. The final section describes actual group sessions in a wide variety of specialized groups, including groups for children of divorce, for women with a history of incest, and combined groups for adolescents and the elderly..

Gerald Corey is Professor Emeritus of Human Services at California State University at Fullerton; a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed psychologist; a National Certified Counselor; a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Counseling Psychology); a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Dr. Corey taught undergraduate and graduate courses in group counseling, as well as courses in experiential groups, the theory and practice of counseling, and ethics in counseling. He is the author or co-author of 15 counseling textbooks currently in print and numerous journal articles. Along with his wife, Marianne Schneider Corey, Dr. Corey has conducted group counseling training workshops for mental health professionals at many universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany, Belgium, Scotland, England, and Ireland. The two received the Association for Specialists in Group Work's Eminent Career Award in 2001. Dr. Corey earned his doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California.

Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor. She received her master's degree in marriage, family, and child counseling from Chapman College. She is a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work and was the recipient of this organization's Eminent Career Award in 2001. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011. She also holds memberships in the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. She is the co-author of several counseling textbooks, and has made educational DVD programs on various aspects of counseling practice. Marianne has been involved in leading groups for different populations, providing training and supervision workshops in group process, facilitating self-exploration groups for graduate students in counseling, and co-facilitating training groups for group counselors and weeklong residential workshops in personal growth. With her husband, Jerry Corey, she has given many presentations at professional conferences and has conducted training workshops, continuing education seminars, and personal growth groups in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, and Korea.