Groups: Process and Practice (with InfoTrac®) (Paperback)

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"Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Marianne has been actively involved in providing training and supervision workshops in group process for human-services students and professionals. She facilitates self-exploration groups for graduate students and continues to conduct training workshops in group counseling with Jerry is various countries. Both Marianne and Jerry were the recipients of the Eminent Career Award (for distinguished and major contributions to the field of group work) by the Association for Specialists in Group Work (March, 2001)." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"I have used this text for a number of years and each edition gets better and better. I applaud the clarity and examples provided for each stage."

"I have reviewed countless other texts, but I have never found a text that is as student-friendly, applied, and consistent with the process of the group class."

"The self-assessments, thought questions and inventories are valuable and a hallmark of Corey texts. The exercises in each chapter are great and I have successfully used them with my students. The scenarios are appropriate and relevant to what students are bound to encounter as they work with group members and they have not only stimulated an environment where I can point out concepts and dynamics from my lectures, but they actually act as a springboard for the work that students might do in their experiential group."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole; 7 edition (February 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534607950
• ISBN-13: 978-0534607951
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #115,623 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Material, But............., February 4, 2002

By	Barbara H. Holstein "barbcpa" (Cromwell, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Groups: Process and Practice (Paperback)

The Coreys have enormous understanding of group processes and the book contains a lot of very valuable material. BUT, the Coreys also use about three times as many words as necessary to make each point. They repeat the same ideas over and over again, making the book very tedious to read. It is valuable reading, however, if you can suffer through all the verbiage.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant if you are new to group counseling, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Groups: Process and Practice (Paperback)

I had this book as a text and it was great. I actually read the whole thing before it was assigned. I recommend it to anyone who is just getting started with group counseling.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Organized, thorough textbook for group therapy, July 31, 2006

By	Eliza Bennet (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews

Marianne and Gerald Corey have written a well-organized text. The information was provided in a logical order and in an easy-to-read format. It covers group process as well as basic practical advice for the group leader - how to form a group, screen clients, where to meet, how long the meetings should last, etc. The group therapy taught in its pages is based on a thinking, feeling, and behaving model that can be integrated into group practice with other theoretical orientations.

This book was used in a masters counseling class on groups, and half our class was based on our own experiential group. The sections on the different stages of a group were particularly pertinent as it mimicked our experience. My only complaint with this text is that in the final four chapters, there were perhaps too many group proposals. I tired of reading all of them but that could have been end-of-semester inertia.