You are here

How to Form a Group
Share

How to Form a Group

First Edition


October 2013 | 88 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Form groups that empower growth, learning, and change
Drawing on the latest research on group work, this accessible book will help you master key concepts and skills. Providing insightful coverage of diversity and multicultural issues, How to Form a Group focuses on all aspects of forming an effective group, including:

  • Strategies for overcoming environmental roadblocks to group formation, such as agency staff lack of support for groups
  • Key practices to consider when organizing groups
  • Practical guidance on how to attract the “right” members to the “right” groups
  • Concrete suggestions for organizing, marketing, recruiting, screening, selecting, and composing groups
  • Differentiation between groups that are remedial in purpose from those that are more preventive in scope
How to Form a Group is part of the Group Work Practice Kit: Improving the Everyday Practice of Group Work, a collection of nine books each authored by scholars in the specific field of group work. To promote a consistent reading experience, the books in the collection conform to editor Robert K. Conyne’s outline. Designed to provide practitioners, instructors, students, and trainees with concrete direction for improving group work, the series provides thorough coverage of the entire span of group work practice.

This book is endorsed by the Association for Specialists in Group Work.

 
Chapter One: Introduction to Group Formation
 
Chapter Two: Organize
 
Chapter Three: Market Group and Recruit Members
 
Chapter Four: Screen
 
Chapter Five: Select
 
Chapter Six: Compose
 
Chapter Seven: Case examples:
Key features
KEY FEATURES:

  • Strategies for overcoming environmental roadblocks to group formation, such as agency staff lack of support for groups
  • Key practices to consider when organizing groups
  • Practical guidance on how to attract the “right” members to the “right” groups
  • Concrete suggestions for organizing, marketing, recruiting, screening, selecting, and composing groups
  • Differentiation between groups that are remedial in purpose from those that are more preventive in scope
  • For instructors

    Please select a format:

    Select a Purchasing Option


    Rent or Buy eBook
    ISBN: 9781483318172

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781483332291
    $42.00

    This title is also available on SAGE Knowledge, the ultimate social sciences online library. If your library doesn’t have access, ask your librarian to start a trial.