Group Leadership Skills for Nurses & Health Professionals, Fifth Edition - Couverture rigide

Clark, Carolyn Chambers

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826104584 ISBN 13 : 9780826104588

Editeur : Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Designated a Doody's Core Title! "This is an excellent guide for key principles of leadership in managing group dynamics. Each chapter is well designed and supported with prominent research in the area which supports the theory development with current and historical evidence" Score: 97, 5 stars -Doody's Group Leadership Skills provides a solid foundation for using group concepts, theory, and research with a wide-variety of groups and group settings. The book teaches essential group process skills, including theories, differentiating content from process, working with tension and anxiety, conflict, apathy, and enhancing cohesiveness. Clark also presents strategies to improve effectiveness of group leaders, such as helping groups move to a working phase, solve problems, and build teams. This updated edition is now newly expanded to apply to a highly diverse collection of groups. The strategies and techniques can be used with students, families, staff, older adults, codependency groups, groups for obesity and eating disorders, depression, rape and sexual abuse groups, domestic violence groups, and many more. This updated edition: Contains descriptions, tables, and assessment forms that help learners understand and intervene in group situations Presents helpful, simulated group practice situations as well as convenient examples of how to record and analyze group process Includes new section entitled, "Group Leaders Speak" Includes new feature, "Clinical Leader Challenges" which helps group counselors lead formally and informally in clinical settings with staff, therapeutic, task, education, and support groups

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Carolyn Chambers Clark, ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHNC, founded the Wellness Institute and now runs a website called Wellness and Relationship Resources at www.carolynchambersclark.com that provides continuing education materials, newsletters, seminars, and practice management consultation. As a certified advanced holistic nurse and mental health nurse practitioner, she has maintained a private practice with clients for more than 30 years, focusing on whole person wellness. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1980 and is an award-winning author who has conducted research and published widely on wellness, holistic, and self-care topics, including Wellness Practitioner, Integrating Complementary Procedures into Practice, Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches (Springer Publishing Company, 2001), Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses: Empower Yourself (and Others) (Springer Publishing Company, 2003) and The Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice (Springer Publishing Company. 1999) She was also founding editor of the Alternative Health Practitioner: The Journal of Complementary and Natural Care and is the author of Group Leadership Skills (Springer Publishing Company, 2003), now in its fourth edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826104584
• ISBN 13: 9780826104588
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible