Psychoeducational Groups ─ Process and Practice

With this 4th edition, Psychoeducational Groups remains the only comprehensive, user-friendly guide to planning, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating psychoeducational groups. The 4th edition expands the discussions about group leaders’ knowledge base, self-development and techniques; best practices for group facilitation, and effective uses for group therapeutic factors. Substantial new material includes templates, scripts, and sample forms; suggestions for leader interventions for group and individual issues and difficulties, a social media policy, and the effectiveness of manualized and cyber/virtual groups.

Nina W. Brown, Phd is a professor and eminent scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She received her doctorate from The College of William and Mary, is a member of the American Counseling Association, The Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy ( APA Division 49), and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Her 29 books include: Teaching Group Dynamics; Expressive Processes for Group Counseling; Group Counseling for Middle and Elementary School Children; Psychoeducational Groups (now in its 3^rd edition); Becoming a group leader, and Creative Activities for Group Therapy. Other books include: The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern; Children of the Self-absorbed (two editions); Loving the Self-absorbed, and Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People.