Group Psychotherapy Books
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: Conflicts and Reconciliation in Groups and Society
This book is a compilation of papers by different authors, among them Vamik Volkan, Robi Friedman, John Schlapobersky, Haim Weinberg, and Michael Bucholz, with a foreword by Earl Hopper and an... (more)
Violence in America: Group Therapists Reflect on Causes and Solutions
Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass violence. Such events, unfortunately, are only the... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Democratic Therapeutic Community Therapy
Democratic therapeutic communities have been set up all over the world, but until now there has not been a manual that sets out the underlying theories, and describes successful practice. Based on... (more)
Clinical Problem Solving: Case Management
Clinical Problem Solving: Case Management provides a powerful and unique counseling service format for making recommendations to clients and monitoring cognitive behavioral gains. The... (more)
Help Your Group Thrive: Workbook and Planning Guide
This easy-to-use manual is recommended for leaders of all types of groups – discussion groups, peer support, organizations, and workplace teams. You’ll find discussion of the different types of... (more)
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner's Reference
This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents. Further, this volume illustrates the application of these models to work with the... (more)
Positive Dynamics: A Systemic Narrative Approach to Facilitating Groups
This is a practical manual for group facilitators, informed by extensive experience. Grounded in a firm psychological evidence base, it focuses on the concrete practicalities of how to make groups... (more)
Group CBT for Psychosis: A Guidebook for Clinicians
Psychosis implies an alteration of one's reality, with specific beliefs and sensory experiences that affect one's judgment and capacity to function socially. Previously, medication alone was believed... (more)
101 Interventions in Group Therapy: Second Edition
This newly revised and expanded second edition of 101 Interventions in Group Therapy offers practitioners exactly what they are looking for: effective interventions in a clear and reader-friendly... (more)
The Linked Self in Psychoanalysis: The Pioneering Work of Enrique Pichon Riviere
Enrique Pichon Riviere was a pioneering psychoanalyst, writing in Spanish in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century. He has never been translated into English, so his ideas are only known... (more)
International Perspectives on Group Work: Leadership, Practice, Research, and Teaching
The counselling profession in the United States is calling for increased international collaboration, engagement, and understanding of the global issues which impact the way in which counsellors... (more)
Group Workbook for Treatment of Persistent Depression: Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy-(CBASP) Patient's Guide
The Group Workbook for Treatment of Persistent Depression is a guide for patients suffering from persistent depression who participate in group therapy. The workbook provides handouts and skills... (more)
Group Activities for Latino/a Youth: Strengthening Identities and Resiliencies Through Counseling
Directly applicable to practice, Group Activities for Latino/a Youth allows helping professionals such as human service workers, social workers, and school and community mental health counselors to... (more)
Beyond Therapy: Igniting Life Focus Community Movements
In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of life focus in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to be... (more)
Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice: Third Edition
A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents. In an accessible,... (more)
The Art of Relational Supervision: Clinical Implications of the Use of Self in Group Supervision
The Art of Relational Supervision demonstrates the clinical implications of the relational approach when applied to supervision. Describing her philosophical and theoretical rationale for setting up... (more)
The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame
In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations... (more)
Group Therapy: Theory, Practices and Effectiveness
As the power of talk therapy was beginning to be discovered, it became clear at about the same time that it was very difficult to provide individual therapy for many people at the same time. Such... (more)
Brief Group Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders: Inpatient Protocols
In the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, delivering psychological interventions in a group format can bring unique benefits in addition to those associated with working with patients individually. These... (more)
Group Work: Skills and Strategies for Effective Interventions: Third Edition
The new edition of Group Work adds a focus on diversity and the use of self in group work, an area too often neglected in professional training but essential to meeting current competence standards... (more)
On Group Analysis and Beyond: Group Analysis as Meta-Theory, Clinical Social Practice, and Art
By extending the views of Foulkes, Bion, Freud, and Klein, this book draws the outline of a group analytic theory and meta-theory by studying the paternal and maternal functions as expressed by the... (more)
Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey
Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey is a collection of beautifully written clinical essays by group analysts in Israel - a society which suffers from chronic war and violence. Israeli group... (more)
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies: Volume 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-configured
In this book the authors develop the theory of the tripartite matrix, consider music as a form of non-verbal communication as a sub-dimension of the matrix, and to present empirical studies of the... (more)
What is Group Work?
This is a practical guide to improving the everyday practice of group work. What Is Group Work? presents an inclusive overview of group work in an easy-to-read format. Authors Robert K. Conyne and... (more)
Groups: Fostering a Culture of Change
Group leaders need to be culture-of-change builders. This book identifies group conditions that have evidentiary support. The authors point out how these conditions combine to yield a positive group... (more)
Attachment in Group Psychotherapy
Patients in group therapy often struggle with interpersonal problems and difficulties regulating emotions. Group therapy is an ideal format for many such patients because it exposes them to ample... (more)
Broadening the Base of Addiction Mutual Support Groups: Bringing Theory and Science to Contemporary Trends
Mutual-help groups have proliferated, diversified and adapted to emerging substance-related trends over the past 75 years, and have been the focus of rigorous research for the past 30 years. This... (more)
Windows into Today's Group Therapy: The National Group Psychotherapy Institute of the Washington School of Psychiatry
The Washington School of Psychiatry in Washington, D.C. has long been on the leading-edge of theoretical changes in psychotherapy, having offered a certification program in group psychotherapy, The... (more)
Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy: Challenges and Opportunities
With coverage of the latest theory and research, this is a complete guide to implementing cognitive behavioral group therapy for practitioners and trainees in a range of mental health... (more)
Removing the Roadblocks: Group Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers and Family Members
Based on the author's 18 years of experience supervising group therapists, this quintessentially practical book is designed to help practitioners think through and formulate appropriate strategies in... (more)