A gift to the reading audience of contemporary group psychotherapists, social group workers and T-Group consultants. In one volume it likely includes some of the most seminal material on the development and explication of practice and behavioral theories in American group psychotherapy...presents material that is necessary, that should not be passed up, for carrying out historical and empirical research in the fields for group practice. It provides the opportunity to carefully consider the differences between concepts. As well, it will aid in the development of hypotheses. The practitioner will find explanations, guidelines, and judgments about engaging the member and the group in the practice situation. Social workers practicing social group work and developing group work practice theory will find this book useful too...will help to distinguish between the concepts, processes, and goals of social group work, group psychotherapy and T-group."/-/Social Work with Groups

K. Roy MacKenzie, M.D., President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, has served as Residency Training Director at universities in both the United States and Canada. The author of a number of books on group therapy and editor of Classics in Group Therapy, Dr. MacKenzie has contributed over 20 articles and a dozen chapters to the psychotherapy literature. He is actively involved clinically in a university psychotherapy service where there is a particular emphasis on time-limited intensive groups as well as longer-term group treatments for severe personality disorders, and he regularly presents workshops in group theory and technique throughout North America.

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