Recovery Groups

A Guide to Creating, Leading, and Working With Groups For Addictions and Mental Health Conditions

Linda-Farris Kurtz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-936297-4 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on community self-help and support groups specifically in the context of recovery movements in addiction and mental health care. The idea of groups of recovering people meeting together may seem like a simple one and not one requiring much effort and thought; however, as this book will show, this is not the case.

In Recovery Groups: A Guide to Creating, Leading, and Working with Groups for Addictions and Mental Health Conditions Linda Kurtz breaks down the recovery movement for addictions and mental health care into three sections. In the first section recovery concepts are broken down into two fields: how they differ and how they come together. The second section focuses on methods of working with independent self-help groups and leadership in support groups. Kurtz touches on the study of helping mechanisms, social climate, group teachers, group structure, and how to use each of these to improve group performance. In the third section of the book, Kurtz examines social and community actions from members involved in Twelve-Step fellowships and consumer survivor organizations. The final section also details programs that provide employment, housing, and mutual support, explaining how to accomplish these goals without a large expense. This book will be useful to students, professional mental health and addiction workers, recovery coaches and peer support specialists, and group members and leaders who are interested in this topic.

Linda Farris Kurtz is retired from a 26 year career teaching social work and is an Emeritus Professor, School of Social Work, Eastern Michigan University. She practiced social work in the mental health field for 14 years. She grew up in Kansas City Missouri, attended university at Washburn University of Topeka where she held her first social work position as a social work aide at the Topeka State Hospital in 1958. She received her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965 and her Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 1983. She lives with her husband Ernest Kurtz in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Dedication ; Foreword ; Preface ; Chapter 1 - Introduction ; Part I ; Chapter 2 - The Recovery Approach in Mental Health and Addiction ; Chapter 3 - How Recovery Groups Differ from Other Kinds of Groups ; Chapter 4 - Groups for Addiction and Mental Health Conditions ; Part II ; Chapter 5 - Connecting with Independent Self-Help Recovery Groups ; Chapter 6 - Facilitating Support Groups ; Chapter 7 - How Recovery Groups Help ; Chapter 8 - Analyzing a Group's Climate, Philosophy, and Structure ; Chapter 9 - Who Needs a Group?: The Process of Affiliation ; Chapter 10 - Four Models of Self-Help Recovery Groups ; Part III ; Chapter 11 - Recovery Groups and Advocacy ; Chapter 12 - Housing, Employment, and Mutual ; Chapter 13 - Online Groups ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; Glossary ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.2.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10	0-19-936297-1 / 0199362971
ISBN-13	978-0-19-936297-4 / 9780199362974
Zustand	Neuware