Product Description: Editor Denton explains in his introduction that “enrichment calls for prevention, for helping couples and families discover their strengths and enhance these before reaching the clinical stage.” In this comprehensive volume, some of the pioneers in marriage enrichment, including David and Vera Mace, focus on the value of prevention-oriented intervention programs and methods as alternatives to psychotherapy...read more

Product Description: Human Resource Development, 3rd Edition, is the revised and expanded version of a book that has helped launch many successful training careers.With a clear and concise blending of learning theory and field-tested procedures, Human Resource Development provides an up-to-date self-development guide for the new trainer—and a handy reference for the seasoned professional...read more

Recounts the work of Charlotte Selver in her sensory awareness workshops and explains the methods and purpose of her explorations of fully sensitive living based on distinguishing the natural in our lives from the conditioned

Combines psychological theory with practical exercises to clarify the dynamics of group participation and leadership behavior

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Product Description: How-to guides on essential training and development techniques The Training Technologies volumes of the Library provide you with a comprehensive, instant reference to seven techniques critical to successful training. Develop expertise and confidence in these training techniques: Structured Experiences (Volume 21) Role Plays (Volume 21) Case Studies, Simulations, and Games (Volume 21) Instruments (Volume 22) Lecturettes, Theories, and Models (Volume 23) Design Skills (Volume 23) Presentation and Evaluation Skills (Volume 23) Discover the tremAndous potential of experiential learning...read more

Describes the use of teams--comprised of colleagues, friends, or spouses--in order to provide a support group where goals can be expressed and the means to those goals analyzed and presents evidence of 'Dream Team' success

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Offers game therapy suggestions for those who have grown up in alcoholic and dysfunctional homes, and shows how to increase concentration, develop thinking skills, and coordinate thought, emotion, and actions

Now in its seventh edition, this book provides readers with a careful balance of theory, applications, and skills. This new edition includes expanded coverage of teams and teamwork, ethical collaboration, using technology in groups and teams, as well practical tools, techniques and principles to enhance problem-solving and decision-making. Expanded coverage of critical thinking methods that include the latest research findings. The authors have provided enhanced coverage and examples of business applications, ethics, as well as more significant coverage of leadership and meetings. Research and technology, including group and team deliberation and Internet research, give the reader the most current information available for these evolving topics. A text-specific website, http://awlonline.com/beebe supports the text with activities, links, and other aids related to small group communication, as well as an online Study Guide. Anyone interested in small group communication issues (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Most trainers rely on trial and error as the only means of improving facilitation skills. This definitive text furnishes a comprehensive framework for determining the best interventions to use in a given group situation. The trainer is presented with strategies for assisting the individual to establish an attainable goal, develop a strategy for change, and implement and evaluate that strategy during and following the life of the group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the use of teams--comprised of colleagues, friends, or spouses--in order to provide a support group where goals can be expressed and the means to those goals analyzed, and presents evidence of 'Dream Team' success

Product Description: This book is intended as a guide for people in the caring professions, organizers of self-help movements or those in some kind of personnel work to help them set up and run a basic support group. It refers specifically to support groups, as distinct from therapy groups and personal learning or personal growth groups...read more

Product Description: First developed to help prevent substance abuse, the methods in this book also help people change other self-destructive ways by recapturing personal authority over self-esteem.

Product Description: This volume presents a field-tested enrichment program, MAP, to help married couples maximize their relationship potential. MAP is a metaphor for a planned and systematic change effort for helping spouses chart and navigate toward desired individual and collective goals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This work contains exercises, role-playing simulations and cases, the majority of which were developed in and for management training workshops. The cases represent different industries and organizations from around the world, varying in size, product, service and cultures.