My Story: Blogs by Four Military Teens,by Sherman,M. D., & Sherman,D. M.

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GROUP WORK WITH POPULATIONS AT RISK. SECOND EDITION. Reviewed by Geoffrey L. Greif and Paul H. Ephross (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 480 pp. reviewed by Barbara Muskat

TRANSFORMING THE LEGACY: COUPLE THERAPY WITH SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. Reviewed by Kathryn Basham and Dennis Miehls. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 368 pp. reviewed by Rachel Birnbaum     

Talking treasures: Stories to help build emotional intelligence and resilience in young children by Hankin,V., Omer,D., Elias,M. J., & Raviv,A.

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Group cognitive therapy for addictions by Wenzel,A., Liese,B. S., Beck,A. T., & Friedman-Wheeler,D. G.

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Empowering teen peers to prevent bullying: The Bully Busters Program for high school (Peer leader guide and CD) by Horne,A. M., Nitza,A., Dobias,B. F., Jolliff,D. L., Raczynski,K. A., & Voors,W.

This article describes low-cost and tested procedures which may be used by the social work pracritioner-researcher for collection of data about what takes place in groups in natural setting. Some technical issues in uses of tapes of group sessions obtained by portable cassette recorders are explored. Content analysis as a research technique is explained and illustrations provided. Process analysis through measurement of such dimensions as frequency and initiator of speech is described.     

Strength and Diversity in Social Work with Groups: Think Group by Cohen,C., Phillips,M., & Hanson,M.

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Trauma Transformed: An Empowerment Response by Bussey,M. & Wise,J. B. (Eds.)

A group worker needs effective ways to get a group started and to involve its members. The check-in, an exercise to open group sessions, and other go-rounds which give each member a turn to speak, have become popular techniques. This article examines the value, purpose and problems of the check-in and other types of go-rounds and gives guidelines for use in a group. It is possible to perform acts that are techniques without employing groupwork as well as to use these same techniques and be doing goupwork. The techniques are not unique to our field; they are shared by all of the helping professions. The method informs how and when these techniques are to be selected, in what combinations, and with what intents (Klein, 1972).