This volume contains a series of contributions for health care and mental health professionals pertaining to therapy for groups, couples, and the family. The first section on clinical issues
and applications has 9 chapters (e.g., treatment of antisocial youth and families; group treatments of eating disorders with children and adolescents; emotionally focused family therapy; group
work with older adults; relapse prevention in couples therapy; solution-focused premarital counseling; multiple family group treatment for persons with schizophrenia; narrative family therapy:
an integrative perspective; and family, group, and individual treatments for patients with neurological impairments). The second section on practice management and professional development
includes 2 articles (e.g., conducting group psychotherapy in private practice and developing groups for disaster preparedness and response). The third section includes 1 assessment instrument
(Suicidal Adult Assessment Protocol - SAAP), 6 client handouts (e.g., information about group psychotherapy; the problem of overweight in children and adolescents; eating disorders; children's
mental health facts: children and adolescents with conduct disorder; marijuana: what parents and teens need to know; and what every person should know about trauma), and 1 therapist handout
(using groups to treat trauma) for these therapies. The last section, called selected topics, has 3 chapters (e.g., a cultural transformation approach in the group treatment of addiction;
improving dyadic coping in marital distress prevention programs and marital therapy; and women of color groups: group counseling with African American college women).
