Section I: Structuring -- Psychoeducational groups: overview and model -- Planning -- Evaluation and exercises -- Group leadership and instructional style -- Section II: Leader development and facilitation skills -- Group leader self-development -- Group leadership skills -- The group: process and progress -- Section III: Leader comptencies -- Cultural and diversity issues and concerns -- Ehtical and legal standards -- Potential membership problems, concerns and invervention skills -- Managing conflict and guidelines for confrontation -- Section IV: Applications -- Leading psychoeducational groups for children and adolescents -- Leading psychoeducational groups for adults -- Psychoeducational groups for illnesses and other conditions -- Psychoeducational support groups.