Get REAL A Practical Guide to Leading Adolescent Groups

by Beth Harris Brandes, Judy Bost Ingold

An outstanding "how-to" resource for leading adolescent groups, greatly expanded from the first edition and in a new 8½" x 11" format with reproducible exercises for unlimited use by the purchaser with students.  The authors illustrate how to become a successful teen group leader by following four basic guidelines:

• R - Reflect what teens say and what they communicate nonverbally
• E - Explore what’s going on.  Don’t assume you know their feelings.
• A - Attend to emotions behind the words and behaviors.
• L - Loan teens tools to help them solve problems.

Supplied with a bounty of ideas and tips for facilitating adolescent groups, this book is a must for social workers, teachers, counselors, and other youth workers who venture into the world of teenagers in order to help them through it all.