Dr. Nina Brown received her doctorate in Counselor Education from the College of William and Mary. She is a professor of counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and has published numerous books on the topic of groups, including Teaching Group Dynamics, Expressive Processes in Group Counseling, Group Counseling for Elementary and Middle School Children, Psychoeducation Groups Accelerated Development. She also published The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

CHAPTER 1 Why Classroom Groups?CHAPTER 2 The Challenge of PreparationCHAPTER 3 Organizing and GuildingCHAPTER 4 Developing Student ExpertiseCHAPTER 5 The Group Performance CurveCHAPTER 6 Conflict:Inevitable and ManageableCHAPTER 7 Problem Behaviors and InterventionsCHAPTER 8 Group Level Problems and SolutionsCHAPTER 9 Relating Characteristics and Communication SkillsCHAPTER 10 Group LeadershipCHAPTER 11 Group Activities and ExercisesCHAPTER 12 Electronically Linked GroupsBibliographyIndex