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Group Communication Pitfalls
Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience
First Edition
- John O. Burtis - University of Northern Iowa, USA
- Paul D. Turman - Nebraska State College System, Lincoln, NE, South Dakota Board of Regents, USA
September 2005 | 264 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
"They have done this with a rich, provocative, and creative conceptual vocabulary that will resonate for readers who practice, supervise others' practice, teach about or do research in group life and group work."
—Paul H. Ephross, MSW, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, providing students with the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. By assuming this orientation, authors John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman offer readers a map of the group pitfall terrain and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups.
Key Features
—Paul H. Ephross, MSW, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, providing students with the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. By assuming this orientation, authors John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman offer readers a map of the group pitfall terrain and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups.
Key Features
- Provides students with a unifying theoretical framework and pedagogical orientation, which organizes a very broad range of research findings into tight and useful classifications
- Takes a comprehensive approach that frames current small group communication literature through a theoretical lens provided by Breakdown-Conducive Group Theory
- Reviews research findings from a variety of methodological perspectives and directly describes applications of the concepts discussed across each chapter
- Offers extensive skills enhancing material to help students apply the theoretically based concepts discussed in the book
Preface
Unit I: We Co-construct Our Groups by Communicating
1. Why Study Group Communication Pitfalls?
2. How Grouping and Group Direction Help Create Effective Group Experiences
Unit II: We Struggle to Co-construct and Frame Our Circumstances and Processes
3. Pitfalls in Task and Supragroup Exigencies
4. Personnel Pitfalls
5. Pitfalls in Grouping Techniques, Tendencies, and Process Prizes
6. Pitfalls in Confusion, Conformity, Conflict, and Group Consciousness: Grouping Concomitants
7. Pitfalls in Vision and Direction Giving
Unit III: We Co-construct Our Exigencies for Grouping Into Our Group Outcomes
8. (Un)Intended Group Outcomes
9. To Group or Not to Group, That Is the Question
10. Observing Groups Well
"They have done this with a rich, provocative, and creative conceptual vocabulary that will resonate for readers who practice, supervise others' practice, teach about or do research in group life and group work."
—Paul H. Ephross, MSW, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
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