About the Book
Give prospective counsellors a solid foundation for group counselling with a practical, application-based approach
Foundations of Group Counselling offers a broad perspective on group work and balances major issues and essential knowledge with practical guidelines and how-to strategies. Chapters written by expert scholars cover many topics in-depth that are often ignored by comparable books. Separate chapters provide thorough coverage of group work and addictions, group work with children, groups for adolescents, groups with older adults, and facilitating groups with challenging member behaviours. Combining practice, research, and theory, this unique text offers students the tools and strategies they need for successful group work practice.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Foundations for Group Work
1. An Overview of Group Work
2. Group Work: Stages and Issues
3. Group Counseling: Elements of Effective Leadership
4. Group Work: Theories and Applications
5. Group Work: Ethical/Legal Considerations
6. Diversity and Multicultural Group Counseling
7. Efficacy and Evaluation of Group Work
8. The Four Types of Groups: Work/Task, Psychoeducational, Counseling, and Psychotherapy Groups
Part II: Useful Approaches and Best Practices
9. Creative Approaches to Group Work
10. Facilitating Groups with Challenging Member Behaviors
11. Group Work with Children: Applications for School and Other Settings
12. Groups for Adolescents
13. Groups with Individuals, Couples, and Families in Mental Health Settings
14. Groups in Rehabilitation Settings
15. Groups with Older Adults: Loss, Transitions, and End-of-Life Issues
16. Support Along the Journey: Groups Focused on Addiction and Recovery
17. Group Work: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients
About the Author :
About the Editors
David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC, is a counselor educator and member of the core faculty in mental health counseling at Walden University and professor emeritus at Portland State University. Previously, he served as an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University and scholar in residence in counselor education at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), formerly the American Association for Counseling and Development, and past chair of both the ACA Foundation and the ACA Insurance Trust.
From 1980 to 1984, Dr. Capuzzi was editor of The School Counselor. He has authored several textbook chapters and monographs on the topic of preventing adolescent suicide and is coeditor and author with Dr. Larry Golden of Helping Families Help Children: Family Interventions with School Related Problems (1986) and Preventing Adolescent Suicide (1988). He coauthored and edited with Douglas R. Gross Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents (1989, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2014); Introduction to the Counseling Profession (1991, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013); Introduction to Group Work (1992, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010); and Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011). His other texts are Approaches to Group Work: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003), Suicide Across the Life Span (2006), and Sexuality Issues in Counseling, the last coauthored and edited with Larry Burlew. He has authored or coauthored articles in several ACA-related journals.
A frequent speaker and keynoter at professional conferences and institutes, Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with a variety of school districts and community agencies interested in initiating prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk for suicide. He has facilitated the development of suicide prevention, crisis management, and postvention programs in communities throughout the United States; provides training on the topics of youth at risk and grief and loss; and serves as an invited adjunct faculty member at other universities as time permits.
An ACA fellow, he is the first recipient of ACA’s Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and a recipient of the Leona Tyler Award in Oregon. In 2010, he received ACA’s Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person. In 2011, he was named a distinguished alumni of the College of Education at Florida State University, and in 2016 he received the Locke/Paisley Mentorship award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Mark D. Stauffer, PhD, NCC, is a core faculty member in the clinical mental health counseling program at Walden University. He specialized in couples, marriage, and family counseling at Portland State University and in counselor education and Supervision at Oregon State University. He has worked in the Portland area in Oregon at crisis centers and other nonprofit organizations working with individuals, couples, families, and groups, often with homeless and at-risk populations.
Dr. Stauffer has worked with groups and group work in the realm of mental health, counseling, counselor education, and supervision, at the associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral levels of higher education. Dr. Stauffer was a Chi Sigma Iota International Leaders in Counselor Education fellow and was also awarded the Emerging Leaders Training Grant by the American Counseling Association. Dr. Stauffer has served as co-chair of the American Counseling Association International Committee and serves as president of the Association for Humanistic Counseling during 2018—2019.
In addition to this textbook on group counseling with Dr. Capuzzi,
