Group Therapy for Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Adapting the Tavistock Method

by Diana Semmelhack, Clive Hazell, Larry Ende

Book Overview

Mental illness is prevalent in society with a quarter of individuals having a diagnosable mental illness. A growing percentage of these individuals develop severe disorders which incapacitate them and may leave them unemployed, lonely, isolated and untreated. In recent years, there has been a movement away from therapy, and a heightened emphasis on medicalization. This book argues that medication alone does not take away the deep emotional pain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415519322
• ISBN13: 9780415519328
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"