Group Leadership Skills or Agricultural Prices and Commodity Market Analysis

Group Leadership Skills: 4th Edition

Author: Carolyn Chambers Clark

This book provides skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. It can be applied to many situations151;support, psychotherapy or education groups, with groups of students or clients, in organizations or communities. It includes many simulated exercises to provide the necessary practice for leadership skills. This edition includes:
• New information on self-help support groups and computer-mediated groups
• More information on the history, theory, and research related to group process
• More information on group conflict, group problem-solving, group decision making, types of leadership, and team building
• A checklist for beginning a group
• Methods for warming up groups
• Methods for working with large groups

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Fourth Edition
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction to Group Work	1
2	Basic Group Concepts and Process	21
3	Working to Achieve Group Goals	62
4	Special Group Problems	98
5	Beginning, Guiding, and Terminating the Group	113
6	Supervision of Group Leaders and Coleadership	142
7	Behavioral Approaches for Group Leaders	159
8	Recording and Analyzing Group Process	173
9	Groups for the Older Adult	206
10	Working with Focal Groups	226
11	When the Organization is the Group	270
12	When the Community is the Group	288
	Glossary	310
	Index	315

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Agricultural Prices and Commodity Market Analysis

Author: John N Ferris

This book emphasizes market and price analysis using agricultural examples. The focus of the book is on the application of econometrics and will help those going into fields involving market analysis and forecasting. The blend of theory and application is unique.