Full Description
Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment contains compelling theoretical, clinical, and research advances in group trauma therapy by leading experts in the field. This timely book includes short-term integrated and long-term psychodynamic group therapy models from several theoretical perspectives, with informative clinical illustrations in each chapter describing how to foster co-regulation of affect, treat disturbances in attachment, and address dissociation, shame, primitive defenses, and enactments associated with PTSD, complex PTSD, and sexual abuse. Interventions to address the harm and loss of safety following mass trauma that are often mirrored in large and small psychotherapy groups are described. Unique to this volume is the role of diversity, the necessary adaptations of group therapy models to different cultures, and the relationship of trauma to structural and systemic racism, hate, and bigotry. Finally, leadership considerations such as training, ethical guidelines, supervision, pre-group preparation, and self-care for group therapists will be enumerated. Integrating well-established group theory and techniques with new practice and research findings, this book is indispensable to mental health professionals who treat traumatized individuals.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview: Creating a Container for Healing Trauma Section I: The Neurophysiological Correlates of Trauma 2. The Fear-Driven Brain: An Integrated Interpersonal/Relational Neurophysiological Model to Foster Co-regulation and Synchrony in Trauma Psychotherapy Groups. Section II: The Psychological Correlates of Individual Trauma and Attachment 3. Attachment and Trauma in Group Psychotherapy: Theory, Intervention, and Fostering Change 4. Deconstructing the Wall of Dissociation, Regression, and Primative Defenses in Both Group Members and Therapists: A Holistic, Systems Perspective Section III: Treating Psychological Trauma Using Short-Term Groups 5. Integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Psychodrama Theory and Practice: A Blended Group Model for Trauma Section IV: Treating Psychological Trauma Using Long-Term Groups 6. Trauma and Enactments in Group Psychotherapy Section V: Treating Racial Trauma Using Psychotherapy Groups 7. Group-as-a-Whole and Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy in Treating Trauma With the African American Population at Howard University Counseling Service 8. Attachment-Focused Therapy and Racial Inequalities - Who Speaks and Who Listens Section VI: Specialized Models: The Large Group and Groups to Treat Sexual Abuse 9. Social Trauma and the Social Unconscious - Using the Large Group for Healing 10. An Integrative Experiential Group Therapy Approach to Treat the Trauma of Sexual Abuse 11. Discussion: Why Group in the Treatment of Trauma
