Group Development in Practice

Virginia Brabender, PhD, ABPP (C ), is the associate dean and director of the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology of Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, where she also directs a concentration on group psychotherapy in the doctoral psychology program. She has run outpatient and inpatient groups, the latter at Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she conducted research on time-limited groups. Dr. Brabender has authored or coauthored three prior books on group psychotherapy including Models of Inpatient Group Psychotherapy with April Fallon, and she is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, for which she serves as editor of the video review section. Dr. Brabender is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Division 49 (Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy).  April Fallon, PhD, is a member of the psychology faculty at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fallon received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 98 . She has collaborated with Virginia Brabender on several other books, including Models of Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Awaiting the Therapist's Baby: A Guide for Expectant Parents and Essentials in Group Psychotherapy. She has also taught and written on topics such as psychological assessment, women's issues, body image, and aggression.

• ForewordChapter : Introduction to Stage Development in Psychotherapy GroupsPart I. Group Development: Benefits, Theory and ResearchChapter 2: Advantages of a Developmental Approach to Group PsychotherapyChapter 3: Theoretical History of Group Development in its Application to Psychotherapy GroupsChapter 4: Empirical Investigations of Group DevelopmentPart II. A Five-Stage Model of Group Development Chapter 5: An Illustration of a Group Through Its DevelopmentChapter : Developmentally-Focused Leadership Activities of the TherapistChapter 7: Stage Development With Structured Group ApproachesChapter 8: Post-Modern Approaches and Group Psychotherapy: Clinical and Developmental ImplicationsPart III. The Future of Developmentally Relevant Theory, Research, and PracticeChapter 9: Contextual Variables Requiring Further ExaminationChapter : Group Development: Integrating Theory, Research, and PracticeGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Authors