The Virtual Group Therapy Circle: Advances in Online Group Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups.

Group therapy represents the most efficient utilization of the scarce resource of mental health interventions. Online settings dramatically increase the dissemination of this approach. This book identifies the diverse challenges and suggests solutions in remote group therapy for specific therapeutic approaches such as psychodynamic, relational, psychodrama, CBT, ACT, and group supervision. The contributing authors explore specific issues that anyone who conducts groups online should be aware of.

Using a group therapy lens, this book develops further the ideas and areas explored in the authors previous books Theory and Practice of Online Therapy and Advances in Online Therapy.

Introduction  Section I: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities in Online Groups: Insights from Research and Theory  1. Research on Online Groups  2. Miles Away: Alliance and Cohesion in Online Group Therapy  3. Online Group Psychotherapy: Is the Body Really Necessary?  4. From Shrinkage to Expansion  Online Group Therapy that Enables Acquaintance with Other Self-States through Dissociation and Enactment  5. Can I Join Online? Hybrid Group Therapy Integrating Online Participants In Face-To-Face Groups  Section II: Online Group Process Oriented Approaches  6. Modern psychoanalytic group therapy online: Adaptations of theory and technique  7. Group Analytic Therapy and the online groups: Some principles of the group analytic approach to Online group therapy  8. Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy Conducted Online  9. Systems-Centered Thlã>