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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.
Process and Outcome in Group Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Perspective
Process and Outcome in Group Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Perspective
Group psychotherapy presents itself as a complex and dynamic endeavor designed to aid those who are in chronic or acute psychological distress. Over the past 50 years, researchers and clinicians have focused on the dynamics of this complexity, specifically, in terms of understanding its effectiveness—Does group counseling and psychotherapy work?—and in terms of its operations—What are the core therapeutic processes? The contributors to the theory, practice, and research in group work come from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and theoretical orientations that have influenced the approaches taken to answering these critical questions. The entity itself is also diverse, ...
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