2nd Edition

The Personal Development Group The Student's Guide

By Chris Rose Copyright 2024
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

The personal development group plays a key part in counselling and psychotherapy training, and this book offers an insight into how it works and how to make best use of it. Taking the perspective of the student, it charts the course of the group through various stages, dealing with fundamental themes such as conflict, authority, difference and defences. The Personal Development Group has a... Read more

Preface to the second edition

Chapter One

Why "personal development"?

Chapter Two

Getting on board

Chapter Three

Setting off

Chapter Four

Learning to row

Chapter Five

Undercurrents

Chapter Six

Underlying division and difference

Chapter Seven

Singing and sailing

Chapter Eight

Conflict

Chapter Nine

Authority

Chapter Ten

Ways of understanding

Chapter Eleven

Putting it into practice

Chapter Twelve

Coming to the end

Biography

Chris Rose is a group psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant based in the UK. She has considerable experience in private practice, the health service, higher education, counselling and psychotherapy training, and has written extensively on groupwork and personal development.