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).     

Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues by Jennings,S. (Ed.). Current Approaches in Drama Therapy by Johnson,D. R., & Emunah,R. (Eds.).

Some individuals make limited use of the services offered by treatment programs. Sometimes such individuals group infomally and may be observed congregating in the vicinity of the center they attend. Efforts to engage natural groupings of program members in their natural habitats and to utilize natural groups (as opposed to program organized therapeutic groups) as a vehicle for change is suggested. A pilot venture indicated the feasibility of this approach and helped to identify some of the issues and prohlems encountered in the potentials of undertaking this kind of program.