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Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations

An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition

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• Price: $94.95
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 796
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 22nd October 2007
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-3530-1

About the Book

Be more effective in group therapy with addicted clients

Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition is the newly revised edition of the classic text, that provides you with proven strategies for defeating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy. Philip J. Flores, a highly regarded expert in the treatment of alcoholism and in group psychotherapy brings together practical applications of 12-step programs and psychodynamic groups. This updated book explores the latest in constructive benefits of group therapy to chemically dependent individuals, providing opportunities to share and identify with others who are going through similar problems, to understand their own attitudes about addiction by confronting similar attitudes in others, and to learn to communicate their needs and feelings more directly.

Topics in Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition include:

• alcoholism, addiction, and psychodynamic theories of addiction
• alcoholics anonymous and group psychotherapy
• use of confrontational techniques in the group
• inpatient group psychotherapy
• characteristics of the leader
• transference in the group
• resistance in groups
• preparing the chemically dependent person for group
• the curative process in group therapy
• integrating a modern analytic approach
• a discussion of object relations theory
• group psychotherapy, AA, and twelve-step programs
• diagnosis and addiction treatment
• treatment issues at early, middle, and late stages of treatment
• a discussion of guidelines and priorities for group leaders
• countertransference
• special considerations of resistance to addiction
• termination of treatment

Professionals working in group therapy and addictions will find Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Twelve-Step and Psychodynamic Theory, Third Edition an invaluable resource emphasizing the positive and constructive opportunities group psychotherapy brings to the chemically dependent individual.

Table of Contents

• Foreword (Jeffrey D. Roth)
• PART I: THEORETICAL MODELS
• Chapter 1. Interpersonal Neurobiology and Addiction: An Attachment Theory Perspective
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
• The Neurophysiology of Attachment
• Interdisciplinary Research and Attachment Theory: A Source for Informing Addiction Treatment
• Contributions from Child Development Studies
• Contributions from the Neurosciences
• Reward Deficiency Syndrome
• Attachment and Animal Research
• Contributions of the Relational Perspective to Group Psychotherapy
• Chapter 2. Attachment Theory As a Theoretical Basis for Understanding Addiction
• Attachment Theory and Self-Psychology
• Attachment Styles and Secure Attachment
• Ainsworth and the Strange Situations
• Implications for Treatment
• Implications for Addiction Treatment
• Summary of Treating Addiction As an Attachment Disorder
• Chapter 3. The Disease Concept and Group Psychotherapy
• Abstinence: Is It Necessary?
• Paradigm Shift
• Specific Implications of Group Therapy and the Disease Concept
• Addiction, Abstinence, and the Disease Concept
• Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Theory and the Relational Models
• Character Pathology and Addiction
• Contributions of Object-Relations Theory and Self-Psychology
• Margaret Mahler’s Theory of Normal Development
• Ego Psychology and Object-Relations Theory
• Mahler’s Stages of Normal Development
• Beyond the Ego: Kohut’s Self-Psychology
• Definition of Terms
• The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Affect Regulation
• Application for Therapy: Corrective Emotional Expression
• Addiction As an Attempt at Self-Repair
• Self-Esteem Vulnerabilities
• The Reparative Approach
• Chapter 5. Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve-Step Programs
• Misconceptions About Alcoholics Anonymous
• Values, Science, and AA
• Philosophy of Science and the Limits of Rationality
• The Self-Help Movement
• Alcoholics Anonymous: Its Historical Roots
• AA—Why and How It Works: An Interpretation of AA
• Pragmatism: Its Influence on AA
• Existential View of AA
• AA—How It Works: A Phenomenological Perspective
• The Self-Attribution of Alcoholism
• Honesty, Denial, and the Need for Others
• AA: A Self-Psychology Perspective
• AA: A Treatment for Shame and Narcissism
• Higher Power As an Attachment Object
• PART II: ADDICTION TREATMENT IN GROUP
• Chapter 6. Different Models of Group Psychotherapy
• Some Models of Group Psychotherapy
• Psychological Levels of Intervention
• Specific Applications for Addictions Treatment
• Chapter 7. Preparing the Chemically Dependent Person for Group Therapy
• Selection and Composition
• Implications of Research Findings
• Therapeutic Alliance and Cohesion in Group
• Pre-Group Preparation: Increasing Treatment Retention and Reducing Dropouts
• Recommendations for Entry into a Therapy Group
• Present and Gain Acceptance of a Contract
• Chapter 8. Interactional Group Psychotherapy
• Yalom’s Basic Tasks
• The Model Setting Participant
• Interpersonal Honesty and Spontaneity
• Establishment of the Group Norms
• The Norm of Self-Disclosure
• Procedural Norms and Antitherapeutic Norms
• Importance of Group
• The Here-and-Now Activation and Process Illumination
• Interpersonal Theory of Behavior
• Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
• Examples of Yalom’s Here-and-Now Focus
• Integration of Modern Analytic Approach
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9. Modifications of Yalom’s Interactional Model
• Treatment Considerations and Group Therapy
• Recommendations for Group Therapy
• Protocol
• Early and Later Stage Treatment
• Therapist Attributes and Special Considerations for Affect Attunement
• Careseeking, Affect Attunement, and Psychotherapy
• Group Therapy and ACOA
• Addiction and the

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