Group Leadership Skills is a practical, comprehensive guide that helps readers navigate and effectively lead groups. The text covers group counseling from beginning to end, including setting up a group, running the first session, facilitating the opening and closing of each session, working with tension and conflict, and addressing advanced skills and development for group leaders. The Second Edition expands on group leadership knowledge with content on such topics as solution-focused therapy, strengths-based therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and compassion-focused therapy.