Full Description
Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Experiential Manual is an innovative approach to training clinicians in the practice of group psychotherapy for addicted individuals and their family members, ideally to be used in conjunction with Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Theory and Practice.
While previous books and papers are limited to describing how group psychotherapy works, this experiential manual demonstrates the practice of group psychotherapy by combining both online and hard copy material. This manual will also offer researchers on group psychotherapy objectively verifiable data on which to construct treatment models for the addicted population.
Complete with over 70 hours of clinical data, this manual and its online components offer an entirely new approach to working with addicted populations and their families as well as psychotherapy groups.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Models 1. Addiction as an Attachment Disorder 2. Addiction is a Family Disease: An Attachment Theory Perspective 3. The Family is the Original Group: Group Relations and Addiction 4. Addiction is the Attempt to Maintain the Original Family: Trauma and its Re-enactment in Group Psychotherapy 5. Mutual Support is the Key to Constructing a Recovering Family: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 6. Addiction to Theory is the Group Psychotherapist's Most Serious Resistance: Exposing the Blind Men and the Elephant Part 2: Nuts and Bolts 7. Conception and Birth: Preparing a New Group Member 8. Holding the Infant: The Opening Phase of Group Psychotherapy 9. Separation and Individuation: Rupture and Repair 10. Play and Adventure: Enabling Peer Support 11. Termination: Letting Go and Letting God 12. Preparation of the Group Psychotherapist
