Articles & Publications

My most recent book, the Third Edition of Help Your Group Thrive: Workbook and Planning Guide, Routledge Books, London, was just released by Green Pastures in Chinese!

I am delighted that Green Pastures, under the auspices of Grace Yung, Ph.D., in Hong Kong, recently translated/ published my most recent book for therapists into traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese for readers in Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia.

Green Pastures has also agreed to translate/ publish my book for therapists, How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive:Therapist's Workbook and Planning Guide into Chinese in 2024.

My New Book: Help Your Group Thrive: Workbook and Planning Guide

Help Your Group Thrive: A Workbook and Planning Guide, Routledge Books is a workbook for leaders of work groups, coaches, managers, book and service clubs. This book is also for leaders of community organizations, self-help groups, writer’s and critique groups, and students of the social sciences, among others. Like my popular book for therapists, this workbook and planning guide includes an overview of different kinds of groups, leadership strategies, tips for dealing with common group challenges, and more. These valuable tools will take you from defining your group's mission to helping your group thrive.

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MORE ABOUT Help Your Group Thrive: A Workbook and Planning Guide

This easy-to-use manual guides leaders of discussion groups, peer support groups, organizations and workplace teams. It provides leadership tools, sample group agreements, online netiquette, and numerous modifiable forms.This workbook includes guidelines that can enrich and protect writer’s critique groups, book groups, work groups, psychotherapy groups, etc.

The material has been applied successfully to self-help groups, and other paraprofessionally led groups. Whether you are considering starting a book group or wanting to find ways to recruit new members who will stay, this book has tips and suggestions that will help make your group safer and longer lived.

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How to Create and Sustain Groups that Thrive: Therapist's Workbook and Planning Guide - 3rd Edition

This easy-to-use manual includes an overview of a wide range of groups, screening, leadership tools, sample group agreements, online netiquette, and numerous modifiable forms for starting and maintaining effective groups.

Whenever I teach "How to Start and Sustain Groups that Thrive", participants ask for copies of the forms and worksheets I have developed. I created this workbook to provide a hands-on approach to the challenges of forming and maintaining cohesive, durable and effective groups. This easy-to-use manual includes a screening and preparation system, complete with modifiable forms.

My screening and preparation system for establishing therapy groups is collaborative in nature. Clients and I work together, using the forms and worksheets I developed to help them clarify what they want out of being in a group at this point in their lives. When screening potential group members, we decide whether they are likely to both benefit from and contribute to the group. New group members feel more connected and the groups have significantly less turnover.

Practical tools include:

Group/Life history Forms
Sample Group Agreements
Sample Online Group Agreements
Termination Agreements for Groups

Available through the Order Products page, on Amazon and for order at your local independent bookstore

I was honored to be interviewed for the National Speaker's Association's magazine, Speaker: The Art and Business of Professional Speaking Making the Pivot – to Plan B January-February, 2021.

BOOKS

Believing in Ourselves: A Celebration of Women, Nancy Carson (Editor), Jennifer Jones (Photographer), Kansas City: Andrew McNeil Publishing, 2002.

Believing in Ourselves is a book of beautiful photos and compelling essays profiling 35 women who have succeeded in achieving extraordinary personal goals or overcoming significant hardships in their lives. The women profiled are a diverse group, and the details of their success stories vary widely. Yet the stories all share the same fascinating plot twist: Even when faced with major obstacles along the way, each woman made a choice to become the person she wanted to be. These are stories of women who refused to allow their fates to be dictated to them. Dr. Steiner is one of this impressive group of women.

Available on Amazon and for order at your local independent bookstore

Future Publications

The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride, (Future Book)

"I am putting the finishing touches on this inspirational self-help book for individuals who have chronic illness. The book also addresses the needs of their loved ones and health care professionals. The material draws on my personal experiences dealing with "medical messes." I offer techniques that have helped clients and doctors deal with the challenges of chronic medical problems. Woven into the chapters are stories and practical tools developed with clients over my 30 years as a psychotherapist."

The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness is an upbeat, practical self-help book for people living with chronic illness. Readers will find new ways to make the most of a life with limitations, and learn to handle the challenges that illness brings to relationship issues. Family members, health care workers, and anyone whose life is affected by an ill friend or relative can benefit.

This easy-to-read book includes worksheets and materials that have been road-tested over a long career of one-on-one counsel, and working with patients, their families, and caregivers whether laypeople or professionals.

Dr. Steiner draws on her experience as a psychotherapist and her personal life with arthritis diagnosed at age fourteen. As a former wheelchair user, she has a natural compassion and wisdom about the challenges of bringing joy, comfort and meaning to those with limitations.

For further information see My New Book.

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