Full Description
This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups.
Group therapy represents the most efficient utilization of the scarce resource of mental health interventions. Online settings dramatically increase the dissemination of this approach. This book identifies the diverse challenges and suggests solutions in remote group therapy for specific therapeutic approaches such as psychodynamic, relational, psychodrama, CBT, ACT, and group supervision. The contributing authors explore specific issues that anyone who conducts groups online should be aware of.
Using a group therapy lens, this book develops further the ideas and areas explored in the authors' previous books Theory and Practice of Online Therapy and Advances in Online Therapy.
Contents
Introduction Section I: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities in Online Groups: Insights from Research and Theory 1. Research on Online Groups 2. Miles Away: Alliance and Cohesion in Online Group Therapy 3. Online Group Psychotherapy: Is the Body Really Necessary? 4. From Shrinkage to Expansion - Online Group Therapy that Enables Acquaintance with "Other" Self-States through Dissociation and Enactment 5. "Can I Join Online?" Hybrid Group Therapy Integrating Online Participants In Face-To-Face Groups Section II: Online Group Process Oriented Approaches 6. Modern psychoanalytic group therapy online: Adaptations of theory and technique 7. Group Analytic Therapy and the online groups: Some principles of the group analytic approach to Online group therapy 8. Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy Conducted Online 9. Systems-Centered Therapy and Training Groups Online: Adapting to the Driving and Restraining Forces in an Online Context 10. Online Large Groups in Times of Social Turmoil: Helping Individuals and Communities to Work-Through Pandemics and Wars Section III: Online Psychodrama, Art Therapy and Adventure based Methods 11. Sociatry and Sociodrama. A New Possibility in Psychodrama Online Reality: Healing Social Trauma 12. Psychodrama On Zoom: The Story Of The Soul 13. Online Psychodrama Groups with Children 14. Online Art Therapy: Encouraging Creative Healing in The Virtual Space 15. Online Group Art Therapy - the Presence of the Artistic Entity: Experiences with groups of senior citizen women 16. Adventure-Based Counseling Online: Bringing Novelty, Physical Engagement, and Shared Problem Solving to a Virtual Format Section IV: Online Person-Centered Mechanisms of Change Approaches: Psychoeducational, CBT, ACT & SE Groups 17. Somatic Experiencing Informed Group Psychotherapy Online 18. Fostering Intimacy and Participant Engagement on the Zoom Platform: A Practical Beginner's Manual 19. Online Psychoeducational Groups 20. Cognitive Behavioural Group Therapy Virtually 21. ACT as a Group Teletherapy 22. "Can We Zoom Out Of The Hospital?" - Online Behavioral Stress Management Groups Section V: Training, Teaching and Supervising Groups Online 23. Online group psychotherapy training 24. Establishing a Group Program in Business School and Shifting to the Virtual World 25. Enhancing Supervision Practices: The Promise and Potential of Online Group Supervision 26. Epilogue: Beyond Group Psychotherapy - Online Groups as the Modern Agora for Enhancing Democracy and Cohesion
