This book has been written as a primer to be used in group work with children, adolescents and parents. The book has been used by over 300 colleges, universities and public school systems in the United States.
The Practical Handbook of Group Counseling was the first comprehensive practical book in this field. It is a synthesis of the various problems and successes that the counselor may encounter and offers one model that may be useful and/or enhancing for some of these issues. The author utilizes the public school setting as the vehicle for presenting his material. Since the school is a cross section of the population, the model proposed can be adapted to other social agencies that utilize group counseling techniques.
The Practical Handbook of Group Counseling has been written with the help of teachers, counselors, administrators and graduate students with whom the author has had the pleasure of working with.
The book is not presented as The model of group work; it is presented as a text that can challenge the individual’s ideas and upon which the counselors can develop techniques that will fit their personality and meet the needs of their school. It has been enhanced by several suggestions that educators have made. It has been refined by the successes and failures that these same educators have had in group projects.
The text is a synthesis of the various problems and successes that a counselor may encounter and offers one model that may be useful in enhancing and/or resolving some of these issues.
The author, Dr. Sheldon Glass, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is one of the few people in the nation to have completed formal training in education, pediatrics, and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Glass is a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the School of Education at the Johns Hopkins University. While on the faculty of the Department of Education at Hopkins, Dr. Glass introduced five new courses to the curriculum including its first formal group counseling course.
