Help Your Group Thrive

Ann Steiner, PhD, is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, leading a variety of groups for thirty years. She is an internationally known and highly-respected author, consultant to therapists, lecturer, and workshop presenter.

'A rich resource for anyone starting a group... any group.'-J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D, Distinguished Fellow and Past President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and contributing author to Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy'Masterful and comprehensive workbook, this easy-to-follow planning guide prods group leaders to think through the best ways to select members for different types of groups, collaboratively set goals, and plan an important goodbye process upfront.'-Nannette Rundle Carroll, Management Educator, author of The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers (2009)

• 1. The World of Groups  2. Interest Groups  3. Self-Help Groups  4. Support Groups, Writer's Groups, Group Culture, and Netiquette  5. How to Plan a Group: The Nuts and Bolts  6. Screening, Selection, Preparation, and Planning  7. Sample Screening Forms  8. Group/Life History Questionnaire  9. Group Guidelines/Group Agreements  10. Sample Online Group Agreements  11. Marketing Your group  12. Challenges  13. Saying Goodbye Matters  14.  Closing