Introduction to Group Therapy: A Practical Guide

Introduction to Group Therapy: A Practical Guide is designed to help you understand the extraordinary effect group therapy provides in helping to relieve human suffering. Practical and at times humorous, this book combines theory, practice, and practical suggestions in areas that are rarely covered in academic settings such as the problematic client, the setting for your group sessions, a group contract, and several group therapy approaches. A plethora of information is offered for graduate students and practicing clinicians. Introduction to Group Therapy will give students and clinicians a solid direction, eliminating feelings of disorientation when starting groups. In this excellent text, you'll explore several areas of group therapy to help you alleviate your clients’suffering, including: the history of group therapy how to set up your office internship, practice, and residency transference forum dialogues with senior clinicians discussions about the group therapy circle the physical representation of group contemporary issues in group therapy problematic clients Thorough, well-organized, and based on first-hand accounts, this book is also a great resource for experienced clinicians who need proven and expert advice from colleagues in the field. Introduction to Group Therapy effectively combines theory and practical suggestions in one volume to help you offer improved therapy to clients.

Table of Contents:
Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Part I: The Development of a History (1895-1943) The Circle Le Bon Pratt Freud Burrows Wender Moreno Bion Review Chapter 2. Part II: The Story Continues (1951 and Beyond) Dreiker Foulkes Corsini and Rosenberg Berne Rogers Yalom and Lieberman Rioch Horowitz Ormont Review Chapter 3. Why Group Therapy? The Group Therapist Review Chapter 4. Preparation and Practicality The Setting The Group Contract Cohesion Review Chapter 5. Self-Protection: Ego Defense Mechanisms and the Process of Adjustment Acting Out Compensation Conversion Denial Displacement Dissociation Emotional Insulation Fantasy Identification Intellectualization Introjection Projection Rationalization Reaction Formation Regression Repression Sublimation Undoing Review Chapter 6. The Life-Cycle of a Group and Client Inclusion/Exclusion Stage One: Adaptation Orientation Formation Initial Engagement Inclusion Stage Two: Reactive Phase Control Differentiation Disinclination to Participate Transition Conflict and Confrontation Resistance Stage Three:Togetherness Commitment Cohesion Bonding Attraction Identification Family Stage Four: Mature Work Resolution Productivity Task Oriented Cooperation Stage Five: Termination Farewell Closure The End Client Inclusion and Exclusion Review Chapter 7. Transference and Countertransference Transference Countertransference Transference and Its Relationship to Group Therapy Review Chapter 8. Modalities: Structural Empiricism and Application to Group Therapy Adlerian Psychodrama Existentialism Person-Centered Transactional Analysis General Systems Theory (GST) Gestalt Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Review Chapter 9. Modalities--Continued Behavior Therapy Focal Conflict Paradigm Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Basic Assumption Model Reality Therapy Here and Now Modality Review Chapter 10. A Case in Study Group Analytical-Medical Model An Occupational Therapy Approach Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler Process-Directed Approach Reality Therapy Approach Analysis Using the Psychodramatic Modality A Three-Layer Approach Adler's Individual Psychology Systemic Group Therapy Approach The Modern Group Analytic Approach Transactional Analysis Approach A Cognitive Behavior Approach Review Chapter 11. The Training Site and the Problematic Client Scenario Ideal Scenario The Problematic Client Review Chapter 12. Issues and Perspectives Issue: Humor and Its Relationship to Psychotherapy Issue: Therapist Self-Disclosure Issue: Should a Group Therapist Have the Experience of Being a Group Member? Issue: Monopolizers Issue: Subpoena Group Members Issue: When a Client Is Seeing You in Group Therapy and Another Therapist in Individual Psychotherapy Issue: Therapist Abuse Issue: Suicide Review Appendix A: Structured Exercises for Developing Group Cohesion Nonverbal Exercises Verbal Exercises Appendix B. The Many Forms of Group Therapy A Selection of Some Groups in Existence Glossary References Index