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LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR PEER GROUP FACILITATORS
Joan Sturkie and
Charles Hanson
Paper, $11.95
144 pages, 5½” x 8½”
ISBN 0-89390-232-2
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This handy guidebook will help you master the skills you need for
successful group leadership,
including setting up groups, recognizing stages of growth within a group,
communicating effectively,
connecting group members and empowering the group to accomplish its
goals. Apply the authors’
experience as peer-helping facilitators to any group. The authors discuss
the positive and negative
aspects of leading groups — and share their solutions for dealing with
common problems.
Beginners will find this an invaluable companion as they pioneer their new
group leadership
responsibilities. Veteran leaders will discover new insights for making their
programs even better!
About the Authors
Joan Sturkie is a nationally recognized author and peer counseling
consultant. She is a former high
school counselor and peer counseling teacher. Her other books include
Listening with Love: True
Stories from Peer Counseling (which has a companion teacher’s
guide), Christian
Peer Counseling: Love in Action, coauthored with Gordon Bear, and
The Peer
Counselor’s Pocket Book, coauthored with Valerie Gibson. She
is a popular motivational
speaker for conventions, workshops and parents’ groups.
Charles Hanson, Ph.D., is a faculty member in educational psychology and
counseling at California
State University, Northridge, and director of the school counseling program.
A licensed clinical
psychologist and peer counseling consultant, he has trained peer group
facilitators, student peer helpers
and paraprofessional counselors.
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