Working With Children in Groups ─ A Handbook for Counsellors, Educators and Community Workers

Drawing from their extensive experience of running children's groups and training group facilitators, Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard outline and discuss the entire process of running a group, including the initial planning and group design assessment of the suitability of children to the group, running the group and the counselling and facilitation skills useful for group leaders, and finally the post-group evaluation. They also look at the benefits and disadvantages of groups, the types of groups available and the theoretical approaches employed in group work.
Filled with ideas, activities, games and work-sheets for use in group programmes as well as examples of complete programmes for particular problems such as domestic violence and low self-esteem, this book will be a resource for anyone wishing to run groups for children.

KATHRYN and DAVID GELDARD are authors of Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction and Counselling Adolescents: A Pro-Active Approach (both with Sage). They work as child and family therapists in private practice, and have extensive experience in running training courses in counselling children and adolescents and working with children in groups. Kathryn lectures in the post-graduate programme at the University of Queensland, Australia. David is a Counselling Psychologist, and is the author of Basic Personal Counselling: A Training Manual for Counsellors, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall and Free Association).