Description
The counselling profession in the United States is calling for increased international collaboration, engagement, and understanding of the global issues which impact the way in which counsellors conduct their professional practice, teaching, and research. This book captures the experiences of group workers the world over, inviting them to describe how they facilitate group work to restore wellness, promote healing, and create opportunities for reducing isolation and alienation by tapping into the wisdom of multicultural or indigenous practices. The group work profession underscores the importance of training and service delivery that is rooted in humanistic narratives, with a focus on understanding cross-cultural dynamics.
Included in this collection are examples of the rich, creative, and diverse world of group work applications, all of which contribute to a greater knowledge, awareness, and understanding of the many ways in which the power of group membership and leadership can be harnessed for positive change. Group work teachers, practitioners, and counsellor educators will enjoy learning about these creative and important efforts, and take away ideas to implement in their own group work. This book was originally published as two special issues of The Journal for Specialists in Group Work.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Critical Issues in International Group Counseling 2. Development and Implementation of an International Counseling Outreach Effort in Bhutan: A Group Stage Conceptualization 3. Group Work During International Disaster Outreach Projects: A Model to Advance Cultural Competence 4. International Consultation and Training on Group Work in South Asia 5. A Grounded Theory of Western-Trained Asian Group Leaders Leading Groups in Asia 6. Teaching Group Counseling in Botswana: Two U.S.-Trained Counselors Discuss Experiences and Share Cultural Considerations for Practice 7. International Cultural Immersion: Assessing the Influence of a Group Intervention on Intercultural Sensitivity for Counselor Trainees 8. Group Counseling and Satsang: Learning From Indian Group Practices 9. Understanding the Islamic Concept of Usrah and Its Application to Group Work 10. Transcending Traditional Group Work: Using the Brazilian Martial Art of Capoeira as a Clinical Therapeutic Group for Culturally Diverse Adolescents 11. Therapeutic Factors and Members’ Perception of Co-Leaders’ Attitudes in a Psychoeducational Group for Greek Children With Social Anxiety 12. The Development of Relational Competences in High School Students by Means of Sociometric Methods 13. Development and Implementation of a Psychoeducational Group for Ghanaian Adolescents Experiencing Parental Divorce Conclusion
