Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills

Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills Well written informative book. Excellent resource for developing and critiquing group counseling skills.

This is a very good book. It was a good choice for a textbook. Easy to understand with good examples.

The authors have a lot of wisdom packed into this little book with example vignettes that are succinct, and relavent. Easy to read. Perfect for my level of learning/practice as an MSW student.

the quality of this book was exactly as described and it came on time. thanks!

Written in Jacobs's usual concise, never boring, and yet easy to read style, this informative text concerning group counseling provides all of the information a qualified counselor needs to plan, develop, and facilitate groups effectively. Jacobs's introduces group concepts within the integrative framework of Impact Therapy, a dynamic approach to counseling, incorporating theory and creative techniques, that he developed. His style, while not for everyone, provides the tools that a courageous counselor well-versed in theory can use to facilitate client movement. I have studied with Dr. Jacobs, and so quickly realized these are the very same techniques he uses to run his Theories and Techniques classes. I know they work because there is never a moment in class that feels wasted, and it is never boring. My experience has been that class is generally over long before you want it to be. Recently, I was developing a group proposal as a requirement of a group counseling class I took this summer. I had read the Corey book on groups, had the benefit of a semester's worth of lectures, had been through 40 or 50 additional publications/articles. I had all of this information and I had an idea, and yet I was struggling on exactly how to go about putting this proposal together. I had recently received the Jacobs book, but only had time to read the first couple of chapters, so I picked it up, flipped to the chapter on planning groups, and withing 20 pages my pen was flying as I scribbled notes organizing my project. Two chapters later, all I had left to do was type the formal proposal. The book is filled with practical ideas presented in an uncomplicated manner that allows for immediate practical application. I highly recommend it!