Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled

By Baruch A. Levine

Book Overview

Here is an exciting and informative volume on the use of social group work in psychiatric settings. Baruch Levine, a prestigious social group worker and clinical theorist, has edited this exceptional volume that emphasizes the coexistence of mental illness and mental health in effective group experiences for treating mental disability. Readers are treated to a comprehensive history of the development of the use of social group work practice with the emotionally disabled in psychiatric settings. Other authoritative chapters focus on the practice aspect and explore the problems and issues in group work with the emotionally disabled, the settings for group treatment of the chronically ill and psychiatrically at-risk, and the development of comprehensive approaches to the treatment and rehabilitation of persons with severe mental illness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138873195
• ISBN13: 9781138873193
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"