Group Exercises for Adolescents: A Manual for Therapists, School Counselors, & Spiritual Leaders

In this manual for therapists, school counselors, spiritual leaders, and other helping professionals, Carrell, a therapist in private practice who has been an Episcopal chaplain, substance abuse counselor for adolescents, and psychiatric nurse clinician, provides 52 exercises (for a year-long curriculum) for use in group work with adolescents. These cover issues like sexuality, alcohol, drugs, values and ethics, family dynamics, self-esteem, management of difficult emotions, peer relationships, and identity, and are meant to help develop a sense of belonging to a group, decrease feelings of uniqueness, increase self-confidence and self-awareness, enhance insight, and support developmental tasks of adolescence. Twenty-one new exercises are incorporated in this edition, as are two new sections on school issues and spirituality. Basic knowledge of how to lead groups and work with adolescents is assumed. There is no index. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)