Group psychotherapy for psychological trauma / Robert H. Klein, Victor L. Schermer, editors ; foreword by K. Roy MacKenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Robert H.

Schermer, Victor L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Group psychotherapy.

Psychic trauma--Treatment.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

xx, 364 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2000]

Summary:

This indispensable book is designed to help practitioners create, initiate, and maintain therapy groups for traumatized individuals. Written by an array of experienced group therapists, the book addresses general aspects of trauma group therapy as well as issues specific to different populations and diagnostic entities.

Contents:

Part I. Concepts, Theories, and Strategies

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview: Creating a Healing Matrix / Robert H. Klein, Victor L. Schermer 3

Chapter 2. Initiating, Screening, and Maintaining Psychotherapy Groups for Traumatized Patients / Marianne Goodman, Daniel Weiss 47

Chapter 3. Management of Trauma-Related Affect, Defenses, and Dissociative States / Elizabeth Hegeman, Agnes Wohl 64

Chapter 4. Group-as-a-Whole Dynamics in Work with Traumatized Patients: Technical Strategies, Their Rationales, and Limitations / Ramon Ganzarain 89

Chapter 5. Hazardous Terrain: Countertransference Reactions in Trauma Groups / Maggie Ziegler, Maureen McEvoy 116

Part II. Special Populations and Trauma Groups

Chapter 6. Group Psychotherapy for the Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder / David Read Johnson, Hadar Lubin 141

Chapter 7. Group Psychotherapy for Survivors of Sexual and Physical Abuse / Bonnie J. Buchele 170

Chapter 8. Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Traumata of Prolonged, Severe, and/or Terminal Illness / Myrna Marcus, Harold S. Bernard 188

Chapter 9. Children of Trauma and Loss: Their Treatment in Group Psychotherapy / Janis L. Keyser, Kathy Seelaus, Gloria Batkin Kahn 209

Chapter 10. When Trauma Affects a Community: Group Interventions and Support after a Disaster / Mark L. Dembert, Edward D. Simmer 239

Chapter 11. Group Psychotherapy for Victims of Political Torture and Other Forms of Severe Ethnic Persecution / Andreas von Wallenberg Pachaly 265

Chapter 12. Group Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Allied Dissociative Disorders / Catherine G. Fine, Nancy E. Madden 298

Chapter 13. Group Treatment of Severe Clinical Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Substance Use Problems / Richard E. Gallagher, Howard D. Kibel 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572305576

OCLC:

43569350