Brooks/Cole Basic Counseling Responses in Groups: A Multimedia Learning System for the Helping Professions

This innovative, visual, interactive package consists of a worktext, a 105-minute videocassette, and an interactive CD-ROM with Web link capacity. Packaged together for each student, these carefully integrated elements offer an exceptional "how to" experience for learning the skills needed to facilitate group counseling. The authors focus on counseling skills with five actual groups led by trained practitioners: a women's group, an adolescent boys' group, a graduate student group, a middle school anger management group, and a co-counseled adult group. Highly interactive and reflective, actual group counseling sessions appear on the video and CD-ROM to help students visualize the needed skills in group counseling and to learn to identify the skills the counselor uses. Based on the popular and extensively class-tested model the authors developed for their first integrated multimedia teaching and learning package (BASIC COUNSELING RESPONSES), Haney and Liebsohn structure this group counseling learning system around 15 counselor responses or skills and the counselor's associated intents and focuses. This unique model, including both groups and sub-groups, is supported with excellent, spontaneous, real life group session footage from each of the five groups. The authors' easy-to-learn approach to essential group counseling skills addresses the new group counselor's fears by providing first-hand visual examples, a clear and useful structure or system for learning skills, and many opportunities for hands-on learning. Review PREFACE. Basic Counseling Responses and Basic Counseling Responses in Groups. The Making of the Basic Counseling Responses in Groups Video. Using Basic Counseling Responses to Measure Student Learning. PART I: OVERVIEW. 1. Language. 2. Basic Counseling Response in Groups. 3. Intents of Basic Counseling Responses in Groups. 4. Focuses of Basic Counseling Responses in Groups. 5. Definition of Group Counseling. 6. The Group Counselor. 7. Group Development. 8. Tracking the Development of BCRG Group Diversity. 9. Ethics. 10. Co-Counseling in Groups. 11. Client Responses. 12. Non-Verbal Responses. 13. Non-Counseling Responses. 14. Timing of Responses. 15. Responding to the "Difficult" Client. 16. Format for Exercises and Transcripts. 17. Limitations. PART II: DESCRIPTIONS AND EXAMPLES. 18. Opening and Closing. 19. Attending. 20. Empathizing, Paraphrasing, Giving Feedback. 21. Clarifying. 22. Directing. 23. Questioning. 24. Playing a Hunch, Reframing. 25. Noting a Theme, Noting a Discrepancy, Noting a Connection. 26. Allowing Silence. 27. Self-disclosing. PART III: EXERCISES. 28. Introduction. The Groups. 30. Using the CD-ROM. 31. Accessing the Website. 32. Exercises for the Videocassette. 33. Advanced Exercises. Appendix A. Counseling Responses Identification Format (CRIF) for Videocassette Exercises. Counseling Responses Identification Format (CRIF) for Advanced Exercises 1-5. Examples of Individual Goals. Confidentiality Transcript: Group 5/Adults. Diagrams of Groups. Charts 1-5: Frequency of "I," "You," "We" Usage. Chart 6: Use of Counseling Responses by Clients. Transcript of Group 3/Graduates. Transcript of Group 4/Students. Transcript of Group 5/Adults. Follow-up of Group Clients. Figures 1-3. Table 1: Comparing Basic Counseling Responses in Groups with Other Response/Skills Models. Appendix B. Group Counseling Bibliography. Specialized Bibliographies. Appendix C. Read Me/Help Guide for the CD-ROM. REFERENCES. INDEX.