Group Psychotherapy for People with Chronic Mental Illness

by Walter N. Stone

Book Overview

Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this book presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group treatment for the chronically mentally ill. By structuring members' variable attendance, the flexibly bound model, which utilizes group dynamic principles to maximize therapeutic opportunities, respects the actual behavior of many chronically ill persons, making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572300760
• ISBN13: 9781572300767
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"