Group Leadership Skills for Nurses & Health Professionals: Fifth Edition

Contents......Page 6
To Learners and Faculty......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
PART I: LEARNING GROUP BASICS......Page 14
Why Groups Are Important......Page 16
The Group and Systems Theory......Page 17
Types of Groups......Page 18
Concerns of All Group Leaders......Page 24
Qualities of an Effective Group Leader......Page 25
Effective and Ineffective Groups......Page 28
Ways of Learning About Group Function......Page 29
Simulated Exercises......Page 32
Group Process Theories and Research......Page 40
Group Content and Process......Page 45
Tension and Anxiety in the Group......Page 47
Group Conflict......Page 52
Group Apathy......Page 72
Norms and Cohesiveness......Page 73
Themes......Page 76
Simulated Exercises......Page 77
Phases of Group Movement......Page 86
Decision Making and Problem Solving......Page 90
Leadership Skills......Page 97
Team Building and Cohesiveness......Page 100
Postmeeting Reaction Form......Page 104
Planned Change......Page 105
Simulated Exercises......Page 116
PART II: BEGINNING AND GUIDING GROUPS......Page 124
Premeeting Preparation......Page 126
Early Group Meetings......Page 134
Guiding the Group......Page 143
Terminating the Group......Page 146
Simulated Exercises......Page 147
Monopolizing......Page 158
Scapegoating......Page 161
Silence......Page 162
New Members......Page 163
Transference and Countertransference......Page 164
Physical Aggression......Page 165
Nonverbal Groups or Group Members......Page 167
Manipulation......Page 169
Simulated Exercises......Page 170
PART III: DEVELOPING GROUP LEADERSHIP SKILLS......Page 176
Developing Skills as a Supervisor......Page 178
Developing Skills as a Coleader......Page 187
Simulated Exercises......Page 191
7. Using Behavioral Approaches......Page 198
Assertiveness......Page 199
Changing Unwanted Habits......Page 200
Increasing Cooperative Behaviors......Page 201
Working With Parents......Page 205
Simulated Exercises......Page 206
Recording Methods......Page 212
The Group Recording Guide......Page 216
Events......Page 217
Analysis of Events......Page 220
Evaluation of Leader Action......Page 221
Alternative Actions......Page 222
Using Recordings......Page 223
Sample Recordings and Evaluations......Page 227
Simulated Exercise......Page 244
PART IV: WORKING WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF GROUPS......Page 248
The Older Adult Population Grows......Page 250
Group Work With Depressed Older Adults......Page 253
Reality Orientation......Page 255
Remotivation Therapy......Page 256
Health Promotion Groups......Page 257
Writing Groups in Nursing Homes......Page 261
Guided Autobiography With Older Adults......Page 262
Creative Communication Groups......Page 263
Leadership Training for the Retired......Page 264
Life Review Groups......Page 266
Older Adult Group Simulated Exercise......Page 269
Codependency Groups......Page 272
Focal Groups for Specific Problems or Conditions......Page 274
Focus Groups......Page 298
Focus Group Research......Page 310
Simulated Exercises......Page 312
The Highly Creative Organization......Page 320
Diagnosing Organizational Systems......Page 321
Organizational Interventions......Page 322
Recognizing and Overcoming Barriers to Change......Page 324
Conducting Interactions and “Doings”......Page 326
Lead From Within......Page 334
Power and Politics in Organizations......Page 335
Healing Betrayal of Trust......Page 337
Simulated Exercise......Page 338
Community Organization......Page 342
A Wellness View of Community......Page 343
Community Assessment......Page 353
Examples of Community Organization Efforts and Research......Page 357
Organizational Leadership Simulated Exercise......Page 362
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Y......Page 368
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O......Page 373
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W......Page 375