Susan A. Wheelan
Introduction
PART I: Group Research and Practice: Then and Now
Donelson R. Forsyth and Jeni L. Burnette
1. The History of Group Research
Jennifer L. Berdahl and Kelly Bouas Henry
2. Contemporary Issues in Group Research: The Need for Integrative Theory
Sally H. Barlow, Gary M. Burlingame, and Addie J. Fuhriman
3. The History of Group Practice: A Century of Knowledge
Janice DeLucia-Waack and Cynthia R. Kalodner
4. Contemporary Issues in Group Practice
PART II: Theoretical Perspectives on Groups
Marvin H. Geller
5. The Psychoanalytic Perspective
Jonathon N. Cummings and Deborah G. Ancona
6. The Functional Perspective
Susan A. Wheelan
7. The Developmental Perspective
Michael A. Hogg
8. The Social Identity Perspective
Lawrence R. Frey and Sunwolf
9. The Communication Perspective on Group Life
Yvonne Agazarian and Susan Gantt
10. The Systems Perspective
Holly Arrow
11. Chaos, Complexity, and Catastrophe: The Nonlinear Dynamics Perspective
PART III: Methods in Group Research and Practice
Rick H. Hoyle
12. Design and Analysis of Experimental Research on Groups
Maria T. Riva and Maximillian Wachtel
13. Field Studies: A Focus on Group Research
Stephen J. Guastello
14. Nonlinear Methods for the Social Sciences
Damon M. Centola and Michael W. Macy
15. Social Life in Silico: The Science of Artificial Societies
PART IV: Applied Group Research
Tjai M. Nielsen, Eric D. Sundstrom, and Terry R. Halfhill
16. Group Dynamics and Effectiveness: Five Years of Applied Research
R. Scott Tindale, Amanda Dykema-Engblade, and Erin Wittkowski
17. Conflict Within and Between Groups
Dominic Abrams, Daniel Frings, and Georgina Randsley de Moura
18. Group Identity ad Self-Definition
Randy H. Magen and Eugene Mangiardi
19. Groups and Individual Change
Marshall Scott Poole and Huiyan Zhang
20. Virtual Teams
PART V: Group Practice: Methods and Outcomes
Gary M. Burlingame, Suad Kapetanovic, and Steven Ross
21. Group Psychotherapy
Dana E. Sims, Eduardo Salas, and C. Shawn Burke
22. Promoting Effective Team Performance Through Training
Felice Tilin and Joanne Broder Sumerson
23. Team Consultation
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
24. Learning Groups
Tricia S. Jones
25. Mediating Intragroup and Intergroup Conflict
Sunwolf and Lawrence R. Frey
26. Facilitating Group Communication
Nina W. Brown
27. Psychoeducational Groups
Miguel A. Quiñones and Kelly de Chermont
28. Skills Training Groups
Part VI: Conclusion: Charting the Future
George Anderson and Susan A. Wheelan
29. Integrating Group Research and Practice