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Here is an exciting and informative volume on the use of social group work in psychiatric settings. As it affirms the significance of social group work’s clinical potential, Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled fosters further development in this highly specialized area of human service.Baruch Levine, a prestigious social group worker and clinical theorist, has edited this exceptional volume that emphasizes the coexistence of mental illness and mental health in effective group experiences for treating mental disability. Readers are treated to a comprehensive history of the development of the use of social group work practice with the emotionally disabled in psychiatric settings. Other authoritative chapters focus on the practice aspect and explore the problems and issues in group work with the emotionally disabled, the settings for group treatment of the chronically ill and psychiatrically at-risk, and the development of comprehensive approaches to the treatment and rehabilitation of persons with severe mental illness.

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Author:   Baruch Levine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780866569941

ISBN 10:   0866569944
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   22 June 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface I. Past/Present Issues in Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled Thirty Five Years of Group Work in Psychiatric Settings Part I Part II Part III Group Approaches for Persons With Severe Mental Illness: A Typology Group Exposure: A Method of Treating Agoraphobia An Adaptive Approach to Group Therapy for the Chronic Patient New Directions in Children’s Group Therapy: Integrating Family and Group Perspectives in the Treatment of At Risk Children and Families The Discharge Issues Group: A Model for Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Units Short-Term Group Psychotherapy With the ‘Family Absent Father’ in a Maximum Security Psychiatric Hospital An Educational Occupational Issues Group for the Chronic Psychiatric Patient

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