This best-selling textbook, now in its Sixth Edition, provides the essential strategies and tools that occupational therapists need to design and organize client groups for enhanced, theory-based therapeutic interventions for physical, mental health and wellness populations.
Updated in line with AOTA-s latest Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, the book is split into three sections. Section I introduces author Marilyn Cole-s 7-step format for group leadership, the cornerstone for the rest of the book. This is followed by chapters on the fundamentals of group dynamics, client-centered groups, and issues around diversity, inclusion, and cultural humility. Section II provides an overview of a range of theoretical approaches to group work, from psychodynamic, biomechanical, behavioral/cognitive, developmental, sensory, and occupation-based models.
Section III focuses on design of group protocols, synthesizing the theories, activities or modalities, leadership, and membe
