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Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills (10th Edition) |  | Authors: David R. Johnson, Frank P. Johnson
Publisher: Pearson
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 10
Pages: 672
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0205578632
Dewey Decimal Number: 302
EAN: 9780205578634
ASIN: 0205578632
Publication Date: April 19, 2008
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Product Description
This best-selling text is a broad, integrative overview of group dynamics presented in a well researched, readable, and experiential format. This text introduces readers to the theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective, and it helps build the skills required to apply that knowledge in practical situations. More than a textbook, Joining Together illustrates how this knowledge and mastery of skills creates choices, opportunities, and successes for each individual. No competing text offers the scope of coverage and the range of experiential exercises of Joining Together.
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 perfect November 17, 2009
A. Christensen (colorado)
I needed this book for an online course and it was half the price on Amazon. Thanks for being there for me Amazon.
 A deteriorating classic November 17, 2009
J. Michael Innes (Australia)
This book should fulfill an important function. Groups are ubiquitous and vital for the functioning of organizations in our society. Who can readily say that they do not interact with a group in order to solve a problem or make a decision in any work setting today? A text that provides a guide to help such groups operate should be a winner. This book used to be such. This edition falls short.
Groups are part of everything that we do. We need a guide to help members of groups contribute to and leaders to facilitate that operation. We have been in groups virtually all of our lives and are, to some degree, experts in groups. But groups do not always work. A reviewer of a previous edition complained that this book added nothing very much to what a person had already learned in sports teams and school groups. But to me, this missed the point. We may have learned some rules and skills in our previous interactions. But those skills and rules may well have been wrong, and possibly dangerous. A review of historical decision making and a study of the literature on the psychology of groups demonstrates the ways in which groups lead members to identify with evil leaders, proceed to bad solutions and adopt processes which lead a group to self destruct. A primer such as this should help teachers and facilitators unlearn some rules and learn new ones. But his is no longer a primer. It is a text.
And as a text is falls down. In earlier editions it was brief and succinct. In this, it has become longer and fatter. As the literature on groups processes and group dynamics has grown, so has this book. But the point of a text, as a guide and a primer, is to continue to select out, to filter out the irrelevance and to present the essentials. This book seems simply to have added material where there is new literature. It has grown but has not been edited. Where it has grown, it has added material that has not reflected the social psychological literature in the world other than the United States of America. Countless references to material from Europe, central to arguments presented in the book, are simply ignored.
This is sad. The authors could have done so much by acknowledging the contribution of modern contributions from outside of the United States. They could also have done so much for the field, and for themselves, by taking a red pencil and edit as much as 50% of the text. Then there would have been a contribution to the literature, and more importantly, to the application of the facilitation of group process to the operation of systems in society.
Perhaps the 10th Edition is one too far.
joining together:group theory and group skills 10/e November 2, 2009
Angela Armstead (East St Louis, Illinois)
The book is everything I expected. It serves the purpose and I am satisfied with this product. I spent $25.00 instead of $100.00.
 Join together October 22, 2009
Deborah K. Feemster (Marianna, AR USA)
This is a great book. I received it in a timely manner just as it was posted. It was also in great condition.
Terrbile Quality - Definitely NOT for College Level. September 10, 2009
J. Bean
The book itself is cheaply printed - pages are very thin and the cover is flimsy as well. The content is WAY too simple for grad students. It is filled with group activities but, as another reviewer mentioned, they are placed haphazardly and make reading the content of each chapter tricky. Lots of money down the tubes on this one!
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