Group Therapy: An Addictions Perspective
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Allen Berger, PhD
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Group Therapy: An Addictions Perspective

Addiction is a complex syndrome that undermines clients’ functioning and depletes their resources, and individual therapy alone can often miss the mark. Through informative discussion and live clinical demonstrations, psychotherapist and addiction specialist, Allen Berger, PhD will enhance your clinical efficacy with these challenging clients by sharing the many benefits of group therapy. Video Length: 49m
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Individual therapy for clients struggling with addiction can be isolating and frustrating for both the client and therapist, leading to an endless cycle of improvement and relapse. Further, individual therapy does not provide the opportunity for clients to receive much needed social feedback and support. By watching the clinical demonstrations and discussions in this highly instructive video, you will learn how to integrate the varied forms of group therapy into your case conceptualization, treatment planning and intervention. In turn, your clients will benefit from a challenging yet supportive and restorative social and clinical milieu, and the opportunity for lasting change.

During treatment, clients often shield themselves behind defenses, limiting their capacity for recovery and along with it, your clinical effectiveness. The client testimonials, lively instructive discussions and clinical demonstrations in this video will help you to more effectively challenge your clients towards openness and lasting change. By watching, learning and practicing the lessons in this video, you will both enhance your group skills, and more effectively structure your individual work with addicted clients in rhythm with the changes occurring in group therapy.

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Allen Berger, PhD
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Allen Berger, PhD

Allen Berger, PhD is a psychotherapist who has been helping men and women discover the best in themselves for over forty years. He has written extensively about the experience of recovery, emotional sobriety, integrating modern psychotherapy and the 12 Steps, and the psychological forces operating in the Twelve Steps. He is the author of the recovery mainstay 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery and 12 Smart Things to do When the Booze and Drugs are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Right Action…

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