This Experiential Manual leverages the latest technology to offer a revolutionary approach to teaching group psychotherapy. The interactive, digital design allows readers to toggle between traditional text and video recordings of group psychotherapy, thereby bringing the skills and practices to life, without shying away from some of the painful, awkward moment that can occur as a natural part of group processes. A great way to introduce aspiring group psychotherapists to their craft.
Anna Lembke, MD, author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
This manual brilliantly and innovatively brings to life relationships that support recovery from addiction. Videos depicting actual groups allow readers to see, hear, and evaluate the interventions designed to foster attachment among the members with the psychotherapist, exposing, naming, and moving through addictive patterns. This manual is a powerful, dynamic tool illustrating how group psychotherapy provides a path out of addiction and toward connection.
Christie Tate, author of NYT bestseller GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, and B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost & Found
This Experiential Manual is an immersive front-row seat to highly effective group psychotherapy. Offering a rare window into real virtual group sessions, the manual vividly shows how healing unfolds in the group process. The authors capture the rawness, humor, and the essential rupture-and-repair work that define effective group facilitation. This book will transform both seasoned clinicians and student in approaching addiction, group dynamics, and the possibilities that emerge when people come together to heal.
Ryan Drzewiecki, PsyD, LP, Chief Clinical Officer at Sierra Tucson
This manual incorporates an innovative, experiential examination of addiction treatment featuring videotaped therapy groups. Dr. Roth facilitates two distinct groups utilizing various intervention choices, some effective and others less so, allowing readers to analyze group dynamics and their reactions to both members challenges and therapeutic interventions, including the therapists detailed theoretical and personal reflections on his decisions. Insightful commentary from co-authors Straus and Washington Cole enhances the text, making it a valuable training resource for students and clinicians alike.
Joseph Shay, PhD, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
An in-depth, multi-faceted approach to the treatment of addiction. The authors' innovative inclusion of YouTube videos focusses and brings the material to life and cements learning.
Richard Billow, PhD, author of Richard M. Billows Selected Papers On Psychoanalysis and Group Process: Changing Our Minds, and Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction. Clinical professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University
Roth, Straus, and Washington Cole offer a clearly thought-out and presented way to train group therapists capable of working with addicted populations. Using a model of participation in experiential groups employed by AGPA for decades, this manual incorporates videos and summaries of various group sessions elaborating on and clarifying key teaching moments. While their specific focus is on treating addicted populations, the fundamentals of how to run psychotherapy groups have a much broader application.
Scott Rutan, PhD, Author of Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy (five editions) and Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: A Psychodynamic Approach
Roth, Straus and Washington Cole have created a remarkable educational tool. Their Experiential Manual brims with theory and practice guidelines that are brought to life with incisive analysis and companion videos. I highly recommend this manual to all who are eager to expand their understanding of addictions and the skills needed to be clinically effective. Elliot Zeisel, PhD, AGPA-DF, Actor, Producer, The Schopenhauer Project
Dr. Roth leads a group as a master. The generosity and courage of the members provide an authentic and compelling experience. I will be using this manual with my trainees in group therapy immediately
Chris Stewart, MD, Director, Addictions Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program, University of Louisville
