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The Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference guide for group practitioners and researchers alike. Each chapter reviews the literature and current research as well as offers suggestions for practice in the psycho educational arena, counseling, and therapy groups. The handbook encourages the notion that the field is improved through increased collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Through a review of cutting-edge research and practice, the handbook includes: 48 chapters by renowned experts in group work The history and theory of group work Topics across the lifespan An entire section on multicultural issues A variety of clinical problems and settings Appendices include the Association for Specialists in Group Work Training Standards, Best Practice Standards, and Principles for Diversity-Competent Group Workers The Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy, the most comprehensive reference devoted to this rapidly growing field, is essential for graduate students, academics, researchers, professionals, and librarians serving the group therapy community.
Psychological Work With Groups in the Veterans Administration
Psychological Work With Groups in the Veterans Administration
That World War II marked the big-bang beginning of group psychotherapy is perhaps no better documented than in
the early writings by clinicians working with veterans in the 1,300 hospital and clinic megalopolis known formally as the Department of Veterans Affairs, but more colloquially as the VA. Rather unceremoniously, group therapy was born of necessity, an “emergent” matter of supply and demand, with too many soldiers returning wounded in spirit and mind from the war and too few therapists to treat them individually. Like all innovative techniques, ...
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