This is a user-friendly guide to conducting group psychotherapy in various settings and with different populations. It is a resource for new professionals, as well as more seasoned clinicians planning to integrate group psychotherapy into their work.

A user-friendly guide of best practice for leading groups in various settings and with different populations, which incorporates the latest developments in today's mental health marketplace.

• Features multiple theoretical perspectives and guidelines for running groups for diverse populations, in the US and worldwide
• Offers modern approaches and practical suggestions in a user-friendly and jargon-free style, with many clinical examples
• Includes a major component on resiliency and trauma relief work, and explores its impact on clinicians

• Accompanied by an online resource featuring discussions of psychotherapeutic techniques in practice

  Autorentext

  Jeffrey L. Kleinberg, a Psychologist, is a Fellow and President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, former President of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, and served as Editor of the Journal GROUP. He has trained hundreds of mental health professionals in trauma counseling and group treatment in the U.S. and internationally, and is also Professor Emeritus at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.

  Inhalt

  Contributors ix

  1. Introduction to Group Psychotherapy 1

  Jeffrey L. Kleinberg

  Section One: Building the Frame: Theoretical Models 9

  Introduction 9

  2. Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: An Overview 13

  Priscilla F. Kauff

  3. The Interpersonal Model of Group Psychotherapy 33

  Molyn Leszcz and Jan Malat

  4. Towards an Integrative Intersubjective and Relational Group Psychotherapy 59

  Victor L. Schermer and Cecil A. Rice

  5. Integrative Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy 89

  Greg Crosby, with Donald Altman

  6. Functional Subgrouping and the Systems-Centered Approach to Group Therapy 113

  Susan P. Gantt

  7. The Functional Group Model 139

  Sharan L. Schwartzberg and Mary Alicia Barnes

  8. It's All About Me: Introduction to Relational Group Psychotherapy 169

  Richard M. Billow

  9. Resonance among Members and its Therapeutic Value in Group Psychotherapy 187

  Avi Berman

  10. The Dynamics of Mirror Reactions and their Impact on the Analytic Group 197

  Miriam Berger

  11. Meeting Maturational Needs in Modern Group Analysis: A Schema for Personality Integration and Interpersonal Effectiveness 217

  Elliot Zeisel

  12. Developing the Role of the Group Facilitator: Learning from Experience 231

  Orit Nuttman-Shwartz and Sarit Shay

  13. From Empathically Immersed Inquiry to Discrete Intervention: Are There Limits to Theoretical Purity? 249

  Steven L. Van Wagoner

  Section Two: Groups for Adults 271

  Introduction 271

  14. Support and Process-Oriented Therapy Groups 275

  Lise Motherwell

  15. Working with the Difficult Group Patient 299

  Phyllis F. Cohen

  16. Working with Primitive Defenses in Group 321

  Martha Gilmore

  17. Structured Techniques to Facilitate Relating at Various Levels in Group 335

  Albert J. Brok

  18. Effective Management of Substance Abuse Issues in Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy 345

  Marsha Vannicelli

  19. Single-Gender or Mixed-Gender Groups: Choosing a Perspective 381

  Darryl L. Pure

  20. Sexual Diversity in Group Psychotherapy 397

  Morris Nitsun

  21. Group Therapy For Females Molested In Girlhood 409

  Shoshana Ben-Noam

  22. Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Quarter of a Century Retrospective 431

  Judith Coché

  23. The Large Group: Dynamics, Social Implications and Therapeutic Value 457

  Haim Weinberg and Daniel J. N. Weishut

  24. Dreams and Dreamtelling: A Group Approach 479

  Robi Friedman

  25. Group Interventions Following Trauma and Disaster 499

  Suzanne B. Phillips and Robert H. Klein

  26. After the Conflict: Training of Group Supervision in Guatemala 517

  Elisabeth Rohr

  27. Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Psychosis: A Psychodynamic (Group-Analytic) Approach 547

  Ivan Urlic

  28. Care for the Caregivers 571

  Richard Beck

  Section Three: Groups for Children 587

  Introduction 587

  29. Group Therapy with Children 589

  Seth Aronson

  30. Adolescent Group Psychotherapy: The Real Work 609

  Andrew P. Pojman

  31. The Earth as a Classroom: Children's Groups in the Aftermath of Mass Trauma 623

  Emily Zeng

  32. A Multidisciplinary Treatment Team Model for Youth Offenders in Correctional Treatment Centers: Applying Psychodynamic Group Concepts 645

  D. Thomas Stone Jr. and Anne Carson Thomas

  Section Four: Diversity 665

  Introduction 665

  33. Diversity in Groups: Culture, Ethnicity and Race 667

  Siddharth Ashvin Shah and Razia Kosi

  34. A Spiritually Informed Approach to Group Psychotherapy 681

  Alexis D. Abernethy

  Section Five: Through a Personal Lens 707

  Introduction 707

  35. Group Psychotherapy as my Career Path 709

  Walter N. Stone

  36. My Development as a Group Therapist 731

  Marvin L. Aronson

  37. Group Psychotherapy with High-Functioning Adults Or, People Like Me! 745

  Bonnie J. Buchele

  Author Index 771

  Subject Index 785