"This new edition of Group Participation offers lively and clear descriptions of basic techniques for attaining group success. Detailed discussions of when, how, and why to use the techniques are provided along with concrete examples in dramatized vignettes. Among the topics covered are contract negotiation, mediating, confrontation, gatekeeping, focusing, responding to feelings, rewarding effort and achievement, and information management. Completely updated and class-tested, this volume also includes improved practice exercise, an expanded discussion of the nature of group success, and a new section that relates leadership technique to group-specific cases."--BOOK JACKET.