Solution-Focused Groupwork
- John Sharry - Mater Hospital & Brief Therapy Group, Dublin
Brief Therapies series
Social Group Work Practice
"John Sharry has fluency with language that allows complexity to sit side by side with clarity and ideas to flow across the page. This is a book that must be read by anyone interested in front-line developments in solution-focused therapy."
—Chris Iveson, Brief Therapy Practice, London
"In a thoughtful, step-by-step, and easy-to-read fashion, John Sharry integrates the best from established principles of group therapy with recent advances in brief, strength-based, resiliency-oriented treatment approaches. A 'must read' for practitioners working with groups."
—Scott D. Miller, Co-Founder, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, Chicago
"This slim tautly written volume disguises an enormous practical treasure store to help group facilitators. Solution Focused Groupwork should be essential reading."
—Barbara Wilson, Family Mediation in Practice
"Enlightening, clearly written, and helpfully presented. . . The book echoes what Solution-Focused Groupwork is all about—being practical and optimistic about human potential."
—David Jaques, Author of Learning in Groups
Solution-Focused Groupwork, Second Edition is an innovative and highly practical guide for all professionals who use groups to help people. For those new to the approach it provides a clear, step-by-step introduction, while for more experienced practitioners it presents ideas and techniques which can be readily integrated into existing practice.
In this fully updated revision, including a brand new chapter on Supervision, John Sharry examines the therapeutic factors that characterize solution- focused groupwork and contribute to its effectiveness. Using carefully selected case studies and examples, he takes the reader through the various stages in the therapeutic process, from getting started to the final session. The book also provides creative exercises for use in practice, guidance on evaluating the outcomes of group work and also a model for group supervision for the facilitator. A real strength of the book is in showing practitioners how to create a constructive, positive, and solution-focused group culture and how to maintain this culture in spite of the challenges, tensions, and difficulties that naturally arise within groups.
Solution-Focused Groupwork, Second Edition is ideal for individual study and for use on courses in a wide range of fields, including counseling, social work, psychology, community work, and nursing as well as researchers and educators who use groupwork as a means of teaching and communicating ideas.
Very good book. While a lot of books on Solution Focused Brief Therapy are aimed toward one to one encounters this book is original in that it deals with SFBT with respect to groupwork. The book is well structured, contains good examples, case studies and dialouges. I would recommend this book to anyone that wishes to learn more about using SFBT in a group setting.
An excellent text providing clear and accessible exploration of group work and processes. It will facilitate students having greater knowledge of a contemporary focus in solution focussed work with clients on groups. It provides guidance on all aspects of group work, from conception, through design, and implantation and beyond.
An excellent material that can be used in order to teach social work students with interest in mezzo-practice for a unique way to approach their clients' issues. It helps students and professionals to clearly understand the steps of designing and leading a solution-focus groups
New to the 2nd edition:
- Chapter 4 has now been divided into two separate chapters which cover the important and fundamental areas of designing, recruiting and maintaining a solution-focused group
- Now includes a new chapter on supervision
- General updates and inclusions of new developments in soultion focussed therapy
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Now includes case studies and examples from a range of client groups and professional contexts (e.g. children and adolescents, parents, community, adult mental health, etc).
Sage College Publishing
