Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment

Leonardo M. Leiderman, Bonnie J. Buchele

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040314869
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Index: Psychology

Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment contains compelling theoretical, clinical, and research advances in group trauma therapy by leading experts in the field. This timely book includes short-term integrated and long-term psychodynamic group therapy models from several theoretical perspectives, with informative clinical illustrations in each chapter describing how to foster co-regulation of affect, treat disturbances in attachment, and address dissociation, shame, primitive defenses, and enactments associated with PTSD, complex PTSD, and sexual abuse. Interventions to address the harm and loss of safety following mass trauma that are often mirrored in large and small psychotherapy groups are described. Unique to this volume is the role of diversity, the necessary adaptations of group therapy models to different cultures, and the relationship of trauma to structural and systemic racism, hate, and bigotry. Finally, leadership considerations such as training, ethical guidelines, supervision, pre-group preparation, and self-care for group therapists will be enumerated. Integrating well-established group theory and techniques with new practice and research findings, this book is indispensable to mental health professionals who treat traumatized individuals.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction and Overview: Creating a Container for Healing Trauma
• Section I The Neurophysiological Correlates of Trauma
• Section II The Psychological Correlates of Individual Trauma and Attachment
• Section III Treating Psychological Trauma Using Short-Term Groups
• Section IV Treating Psychological Trauma Using Long-Term Groups
• Section V Treating Racial Trauma Using Psychotherapy Groups
• Section VI Specialized Models: The Large Group and Groups to Treat Sexual Abuse
• Index