Group Psychotherapy Books
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 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)
An Invitation to Social Construction: Third Edition
This new edition of Kenneth J. Gergen's celebrated text An Invitation to Social Construction is now even more accessible for students, offering a clear and thorough introduction to one of the most... (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)
Permission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture
Permission to Narrate develops exciting new theory and explorations for group analysis. They are diverse in range and, from differing bases in theory and research, aim to cast light on how clients... (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)
Emotional Incest in Group Psychotherapy: A Conspiracy of Silence
Emotional Incest in Group Psychotherapy: A Conspiracy of Silence is unique in the field of analytic group psychotherapy. Many books assume that the frame of therapy, the boundary between what is and... (more)
Fairy Tales and the Social Unconscious: The Hidden Language
The book combines two main perspectives: the study of the social unconscious and the study of fairy tales. Examining different versions of fairy tales told by different ethnic communities teaches us... (more)
Group Interactive Art Therapy: Its Use in Training and Treatment
The first edition of Group Interactive Art Therapy presented the first theoretical formation of a model integrating the change-enhancing factors of both interactive group psychotherapy and art... (more)
Group Music Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach
In Group Music Therapy Alison Davies, Eleanor Richards and Nick Barwick bring together developments in theory and clinical practice in music therapy group work, celebrating the richness of what group... (more)
Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: An Evidence-Based Treatment Manual for Health Professionals
Following the success of Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats which outlines a self-help, CBT-based programme for dealing with menopausal symptoms, Myra Hunter and Melanie Smith have evolved a... (more)
The Anti-Group: Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential: Classic Edition
The 'anti-group' is a major addition to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and applied group work. It comprises the negative, disruptive elements, which threaten to undermine and even... (more)
Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook
Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder represents the first treatment manual for group schema therapy and is based on the only group ST model validated by published empirical... (more)
Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Treatment Manual
The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of meaning in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by... (more)
Applied Psychology for Servant Religion: A Religious Behavioral Science Promotes Personal and Social Welfare
This book is the third in a trilogy of books on introductory psychology. It emphasizes the application of psychological principles for the improvement of individual and group behaviors. The two... (more)
Group Therapy Techniques with Children, Adolescents, and Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Growth and Connection for All Ages
Group Therapy Techniques with Children, Adolescents, and Adults on the Autism Spectrum is designed for psychologists, counselors, and social workers who are interested in using group therapy with... (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)
Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy: Fifth Edition
Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses all aspects of setting up therapy groups and making them work. A wealth of clinical material illustrates the... (more)