How should group therapy be organized?

What are the techniques for helping sound treatment processes and effec-tive group dynamics to develop?

The answers to these questions illustrate the material covered in Group Psychotherapy. As one reviewer summarizes, "I have been teaching in the field of groups for many years, and the field has needed a text of this nature for a long time. It provides the reader a substantive blending of theoretical knowledge with useful guidelines for group therapy practice."

Group Psychotherapy fills a need for all practitioners of group therapy. The author, who has been a practicing therapist for many years, makes good use of existing materials and uses current experience to amplify and examine concepts and principles.

Part I deals with the theory and practices for organization of and the preparation for a therapy group. Part II stresses developmental issues of therapy groups, and Part III is devoted to advanced emotional and practice issues for ongoing groups.

Baruch Levine, Ph.D., University of cago, ACSW, is a private practitioner and consultant, and is a faculty member of Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago A pioneer of the development of g psychotherapy, he has published Fundamentals of Group Treatment and was National Chairman of the Group Council, National Association of Social Workers and is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers.