An Introduction to Groupwork

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 1-14

3. The Individual and the Group

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 15-28

4. Growing a Group

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 29-51

5. What Happens in a Group?

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 52-81

6. Working in the Group

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 82-100

7. Working in the Group

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 101-124

8. Differences in Groups: Heterogeneity and Homogeneity

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 125-144

9. Working Together

   • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

   Pages 145-162

10. On Becoming a Group Therapist

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde

    Pages 163-180

11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-192

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Building on the individual's personal experience of groups, starting in the family, the authors offer an account of why things happen as they do in groups, providing a basis for developing groupwork in a wide range of settings, rooted in an understanding of the interaction between individual and group processes. Particular attention is paid in the group-analytic approach to the social, cultural and institutional context within and outside the group. This book can be used both as a text for courses and to lead the therapist or group worker through the stages of establishing and conducting a group appropriate to the needs of the particular clients, residents or patients.

• attention
• gender
• interaction
• intervention

BILL BARNES was, until his death, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the NHS Consultation and Psychotherapy Service in Liverpool.

SHEILA ERNST is a Training Group Analyst with the Group Analyst Network and teaches at Birkbeck College and the Institute of Group Analysis. She is co-author (with Lucy Goodison) of In Our Own Hands and co-editor of Living with the Sphinx (with Marie Maguire).

KEITH HYDE is a Group Analyst, Consultant Psychotherapist and Clinical Director of a new Therapeutic Community. Formerly he was Medical Director of an NHS Mental Health Trust and Convenor of the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy.

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