Handbook of Group Psychotherapy An Empirical and Clinical Synthesis [Hardcover]

Intended as the group therapy equivalent to Bergin and Garfield's The Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change. Renowned contributors offer a comprehensive survey of all empirical evidence concerned with process and outcome in group therapy. Contains both general considerations and applications to specific disorders and with determinate populations.Partial table of contents:

CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS.

Group Psychotherapy: Research and Practice (A. Fuhriman & G.Burlingame).

STRUCTURAL ENTITIES IN GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY.

Client Variables (W. Piper).

Therapist Variables in Group Psychotherapy Research (R.Dies).

THERAPEUTIC COMPONENTS OF THE GROUP ECOSYSTEM.

Group Development (K. MacKenzie).

Therapeutic Factors: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Mechanisms (E.Crouch, et al.).

SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND POPULATIONS.

Progress in Short-Term and Time-Limited Group Psychotherapy:Evidence and Implications (S. Budman, et al.).

Inpatient Group Therapy (R. Klein, et al.).

Epilogue (G. Burlingame & A. Fuhriman).

Indexes.

Addie Fuhriman and Gary M. Burlingame are the authors of Handbook of Group Psychotherapy: An Empirical and Clinical Synthesis, published by Wiley.