Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

Autorentext

Philip J. Flores, PhD, AGPA-F, is a clinical psychologist and group psychotherapist who has worked extensively with addictive diseases and the author of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations and Addiction as an Attachment Disorder.

Jeffrey D. Roth, MD, AGPA-F, DFASAM, FAKRI, DLFAPA, is an addiction psychiatrist and group psychotherapist and the author of Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message.

Barney Straus, LCSW, AGPA-F, is an adventure-based therapist and group psychotherapist in private practice and the author of Healing in Action: Adventure-Based Counseling with Therapy Groups.

Klappentext

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

Inhalt

Part I: 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 II: Nuts and Bolts 7. Conception and Birth: Preparing a 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