Title: Very Disappointing
Product review: This is possibly one of the worst books about groupwork with adolescents that I've ever purchased. Not only was the presentation itself very poor (sloppily formatted, typos on some of the pages) but the content was so simplistic and obvious that it was almost embarrassing. Halebsky's suggestions are for exactly the type of activities/discussions I throw together in 3 minutes when I haven't had time to prepare a "real" group. My participants are extremely demanding--they need to be entertained and active while participating in the therapeutic process. I was hoping for a book that would give me some fresh new ideas about providing experiences for them, rather than the same old chitchat which they find repetitive and boring, but this book wasn't it. Maybe the population I'm serving is more difficult to work with than Halebsky's target audience, but I was very very disappointed with this offering.
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