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Why Is Group Process Important in Group Prevention?

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Group process includes the way in which you bring about change in your group, the way you initiate and use interaction, the interventions that you use to bring about cohesion in your group, and the techniques that you use to generate motivation and resolve conflicts. Group dynamics supplies the personalities and the interrelationships, the people that you have to work with. Group process is how you mold and shape these variables or people into a cohesively, interactive productive group. The purpose of this chapter then is to illustrate how to engage members in active group process that leads to cohesive interaction and change. We will talk about the stages of adjustment that each person must work through in order to bring about change. Through two case studies, we will apply these principles to group-centered prevention. The training interventions at the end of the chapter show how to convert a program to the group-centered approach.

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Clanton Harpine, E. (2015). Why Is Group Process Important in Group Prevention?. In: Group-Centered Prevention in Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19102-7_3

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