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Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of group counseling with emphasis on critical techniques for effective group leadership. The text is known for being hands-on and reader friendly. It successfully marries traditional theories and concepts with valuable strategies and sage advice that prepares group leaders for impactful practice. Readers also receive access to videos that show leaders demonstrating the skills discussed in the book. The ninth edition features new content related to the social justice movement as well as leading groups during times of crisis such as the global pandemic that began in 2020. Each chapter has been updated to include learning objectives, information on leading groups virtually, and case studies. The section about leading groups of children and adolescents has been expanded, and references throughout the text have been updated. Group Counseling is an indispensable resource for practicing or future counselors, social workers, psychologists, and others who currently lead or are preparing to lead groups in a variety of settings.

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Ed Jacobs is the founder of Impact Therapy and has served as a counseling professor at West Virginia University for more than 45 years. Christine J. Schimmel is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Learning Sciences at West Virginia University who teaches counseling techniques, group counseling, and counseling children and adolescents. She is a licensed professional counselor in West Virginia with more than 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. A former school counselor, she focuses her energies working with and training pre-service school counselors. Bob Masson is professor emeritus at West Virginia University and has over 30 years of experience teaching courses in counseling. Riley Harvill is co-founder of The HarBeck Company, Inc., a leadership and human resources training and consulting firm, and has served as an associate professor of counseling education at the University of North Texas.

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