Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138898356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 300 str.

Philip J. Flores

Opis

This newly updated, streamlined, and more affordable edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. Philip J. Flores, a highly regarded expert in the treatment of alcoholism and in group psychotherapy, brings together practical applications of 12-step programs and psychodynamic groups. This classic text explores the latest knowledge on the benefits of group therapy to chemically dependent individuals by providing opportunities to understand their own attitudes about addiction through working with others while learning to more effectively communicate their own needs and emotions.

Spis treści

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