Healing in Action: Adventure-Based Counseling with Therapy Groups
Barney Straus
Sep 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Ebook
220
Pages
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About this ebook
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 descriptive photos of groups in action. Therapists will be able to use these activities to help their patients experience in vivo the joy, freedom and playfulness that are the hallmarks of sound mental health.
With its combination of sound theoretical material and practical application, this book is a valuable resource for practitioners and graduate students alike.
With its combination of sound theoretical material and practical application, this book is a valuable resource for practitioners and graduate students alike.
About the author
Barney Straus, LCSW, CGP, is a psychotherapist in private practice with Working Sobriety in Chicago. He is the founder of Adventure Forward Therapy, a practice dedicated to using adventure-based methods to help clients achieve therapeutic goals. In addition to providing group and individual therapy, Straus offers adventure-based retreats and trainings. He is also a part-time faculty member at Loyola University Chicago, School of Social Work, and Roosevelt University, Department of Psychology. Barney is a Certified Group Psychotherapist, certified Level 2 challenge course facilitator, and a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
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