Group work with the emotionally disabled / Baruch Levine, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine, Baruch.

Series:

The social work with groups series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group psychotherapy.

Social group work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here is an exciting and informative volume on the use of social group work in psychiatric settings. As it affirms the significance of social group work's clinical potential, Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled fosters further development in this highly specialized area of human service.Baruch Levine, a prestigious social group worker and clinical theorist, has edited this exceptional volume that emphasizes the coexistence of mental illness and mental health in effective group experiences for treating mental disability. Readers are treated to a comprehensive history of the develo

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editor; Preface; Acknowledgements; Past/Present Issues in Group Work with the Emotionally Disabled; Thirty-Five Years of Group Work in Psychiatric Settings; Part I; Group Work - Group Therapy; Generic Group Work - Psychiatric Group Work; Group Work and the Teaching of Integrated Methods; Conclusions; Part II; Part III; Group Approaches for Persons with Severe Mental Illness: A Typology; A Typology of Group Formats; Quadrant I: Unstructured Approaches in Sheltered Settmgs

Quadrant II: Structured Approaches in Sheltered SettingsQuadrant III: Experiential in Vivo Formats; Quadrant IV: Structured in Vivo Formats; Discussion; Conclusion; Group Exposure: A Method of Treating Agoraphobia; Phases of Treatment; Group Organizational Principles; An Example of Group Exposure; Beyond Group Exposure for Agoraphobia; Conclusion; An Adaptive Approach to Group Therapy for the Chronic Patient; Group Description; The Meeting; Discussion; Conclusions

New Directions in Children's Group Therapy: Integrating Family and Group Perspectives in the Treatment of At Risk Children and FamiliesThe Genogram Group; Groups for Mother/Child Dyads; Conclusion; The Discharge Issues Group: A Model for Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Units; Introduction; The Discharge Issues Group; Discussion; Conclusion; Short-Term Group Psychotherapy with the 'Family-Absent Father' in a Maximum Security Psychiatric Hospital; Review of the Literature; Practice; Conclusion; An Educational Occupational Issues Group for the Chronic Psychiatric Patient

The Educational Occupational Issues GroupThe Six-Box Model; A Group Session; Ventilation of Issues; Conclusion; Book Reviews; Working with Women's Groups, Volumes 1 and 2, by Louise Yolton Eberhardt; The Human Bond: Support Groups & Mutual Aid, by Harry Wasserman and Holly E. Danforth

Notes:

First published 1990 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Group work with the emotionally disabled has also been published as Social work with groups, volume 13, number 1, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-138-87319-5

1-315-80396-8

1-317-77311-X

1-317-77312-8

9781315803968

OCLC:

958097910