The Group Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy Book

About the Editor
Contributors
Foreword (M. Carolyn Thomas)
Preface
Acknowledgments

SECTION I: GETTING STARTED
1. Turning Group Theory into Group Practice: The Role of the Experiential Component in Group Facilitator Training (Donna Starkey and Laura Simpson)
2. Tips on Running a Group (Christopher M. Faiver)
3. Creating a Disclosure Statement for Group Work: Best Practices in Action (R. Valorie Thomas and Meredith W. Neill)

SECTION II: INTERVENTIONS FOR ALL GROUPS
4. Play Ball! The Name Is the Game (Shirley R. Simon)
5. Learning How to De-Stress (Elwood R. Hamlin II and Michael Kane)
6. The Magic Wand (Shirley R. Simon)
7. Group Sculpting (Elwood R. Hamlin II, Michael Kane, and Dawn Viers)
8. Striving for Meaningfulness and Self-Acceptance: An Existential-Humanistic Group Therapy Activity (Glenn W. Lambie and Shari M. Sias)
9. What's in a Name? (Paul Springer, George W. Bitar, and Robert Gee III)
10. Behavioral Scaling As a Group-Guided Approach to Self-Management (Nancy G. Calley)
11. Activities for Termination (Randyl D. Smith, Maria T. Riva, and Jeffrey A. Rings)

SECTION III: INTERVENTIONS FOR POPULATION-SPECIFIC GROUPS
12. Nine Steps to Anger Management (Floyd F. Robison)
13. A Little Worn and Wrinkled, But Still Valuable (Susan A. Adams)
14. Building a Bridge: An Experiential Group for Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Pat L. Sims, W. Jeff Hinton, Mary Ann Adams, and Charles K. West)
15. Web of Entanglements (Markie Twist)
16. Adult Children of Alcoholics/Children of Alcoholics: Family Description (Shari M. Sias and Glenn W. Lambie)
17. Holding the Weight of Grief at Arm's Length: Tasks for Resolving Grief (Susan A. Adams)
18. Grief and Loss: Healing Through Group Therapy (Jane Roberts)

SECTION IV: INTERVENTIONS FOR ADOLESCENT AND COLLEGE-AGE GROUPS
19. The How-To-Book: A Model-Driven Process for Group Work with Adolescents (Dave Bryant)
20. How to Be Different and Still Belong (Brigid Noonan)
21. Acting Out: Dramatic Life-Skills Activities (Trey Fitch and Jennifer Marshall)
22. Using Psychoeducational Groups with Latino(a) High School Students (Edil Torres-Rivera and Loan T. Phan)
23. Prompted Feedback to Increase Interpersonal Skill Development (Nancy G. Calley)
24. Crafty Coping: Coping Tools for College Students (Jennifer Marshall and Trey Fitch)
25. A Group Intervention for Athletic Teams (Victoria L. Bacon and Marcia K. Anderson)

SECTION V: INTERVENTIONS FOR COUPLE AND FAMILY GROUPS
26. Make Your Partner Your Friend, Not Your Enemy (Floyd F. Robison)
27. Gender Awareness and Media Messages: An Activity for Couple Therapy (Toni S. Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Krafchick, and Jennifer T. Aberle)
28. Family Mine Field (Dawn Viers)
29. Life's Not Fair (Aaron Oberman)
30. Eight Days in a Week: Using Calendars in Family Groups (Dawn Viers)
31 Maintaining Stability; Life Cycle Transitions in Families Coping with Childhood Cancer (Jessica A. Russo, Laura Tejada, Randall L. Hilscher, and John J. Zarski)
Index
Reference Notes Included