Healing in Action: Adventure-Based Counseling with Therapy Groups is a practical guide for therapists wanting to integrate interactive games and challenges into their work. It provides current research supporting using ABC with trauma survivors and those recovering from addictions, as well as its efficacy with a broader population. Twelve activity-based chapters take the reader through various one-hour sessions of activities based on a particular theme or material used, complete with 50 de...

Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Experiential Manual is an innovative approach to training clinicians in the practice of group psychotherapy for addicted individuals and their family members, ideally to be used in conjunction with Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations: An Integration of Theory and Practice.While previous books and articles are limited to describing how group psychotherapy works, this experiential manual demonstrates the pr...

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.The interventions discussed in the book build on a foundation of addiction as an attachment disorder rooted in the understanding of addiction as a family disease. An appreciation of group and organizational dynamics is used to address the complex experience of developmental trauma that un...

"Filled with . . . insightful examples of legislative maneuvering and political intrigue . . . [a memoir] worth reading . . . as a primer about American politics." — Huffington PostHow did an intellectually combative gay Jew become one of the most effective politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make...