Persian translation by Dr Esmaeil Asadpour, Abbas Mouziri and Fatemeh Naderi
About the book
Dr Elaine Clanton Harpine is a motivational psychologist specialising in the design of group-centred motivational programmes, with 35 years’ experience designing and running motivational programmes for children and adolescents.
Written to help school psychologists and counsellors and others working in school health, this book sets out the theoretical framework of group interventions in schools and gives examples of how to apply them. Although group interventions for schools take many forms, the book focuses on group-centred interventions: preventive programmes that aim to equip pupils to learn and so to perform more successfully.
Group-centred interventions help pupils develop and improve cognitive, emotional and behavioural skills through a series of structured sessions. An element of “play” for children, and a programme of “taking part in social activities” for adolescents, are added to these interventions. As the term “group-centred” suggests, all the interventions discussed draw on the therapeutic power of the “group”; and if the group is led well, “group cohesion” can become an important source of change in its members.
This book can serve as a supplementary resource and training guide for school counsellors with less training in designing and running group interventions with children. It can also be useful and practical for group specialists who want to make their skills more effective, and for newcomers to group work. We hope that by the end of the book readers will be familiar with using group-centred interventions in school settings.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter one: School-based prevention programmes to make up for failure
Chapter two: Retraining the skills that build a sense of efficacy
Chapter three: Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation
Chapter four: Process and change in groups
Chapter five: Choosing effective interventions
Chapter six: A one-week group-centred motivational intervention programme
Chapter seven: Designing group-centred motivational interventions
Chapter eight: Building cohesive group interventions
Chapter nine: Running and evaluating the programme: the long-term goal