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Removing the Roadblocks Group Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers and Family Members

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ISBN-10: 0898621747

ISBN-13: 9780898621747

Edition: 1992

Authors: Marsha Vannicelli

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 2/14/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 325
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Marsha Vannicelli, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, also teaches in the Doctoral Program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. She has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her writing, teaching, and clinical supervision focus primarily on group psychotherapy and the treatment of substance abusers, adult children of alcoholics, and other family members.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rationale for Dynamically Oriented Group Psychotherapy
Considerations in Setting Up a Group: Selecting and Preparing Members
Beginning the Group
Special Population Issues
Groups for Substance Abusers
Groups for Couples in Which One Or Both Partners Are Recovering Substance Abusers
Groups for Collaterals of Substance Abusers
Groups for ACOAs
Defining the Journey
Removing the Roadblocks in the Group
Group Distraction Activities
Group Avoidance Activities
Displacement
Removing the Roadblocks Within the Patient
Deviations from the Contract
Withholding Defenses
Disruptive Defenses
Therapist Techniques
Removing the Final Patient Roadblock: Termination
Removing the Roadblocks in the Therapist
Countertransference Issues
The Leader's Role and Clinical Stance
Leader Snafus
Co-Leadership
Group Leader Preparation and Training
Conclusion
App. A. Population Estimates
App. B. Appleton Outpatient Clinic Diagram
App. C. Alcohol and Drug History Questionnaires
App. D. Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test and Scoring Key
App. E. Group Ground Rules
App. F. Dimensions of the Therapeutic Contract
App. G. Clinical Face Sheet
References
Index