Recovery groups : a guide to creating, leading, and working with groups for addictions and mental health conditions / by Linda Farris Kurtz.

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2014).

Cover; Recovery Groups; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; preface; 1 Introduction; Part 1; 2 The Recovery Approach in Mental Health and Addiction; The Paradigm Shift From Medical Model to Recovery Model; Recovery Philosophy; Peer Helpers; Recovery Groups; 3 How Recovery Groups Differ From Other Kinds of Groups; Self-Help Ethos and Recovery Philosophy; Types of Groups; Self-Help and Support Groups; Psychotherapy and Task Groups; Ideal Types; Choosing a Group Type; 4 Groups for Addiction and Mental Health Conditions; Twelve-Step Groups for Addiction.

Non-Twelve-Step Groups for AddictionTwelve-Step Groups for Mental Health Conditions; Non-Twelve-Step Groups for Mental Health Conditions; Groups for Families and Friends; Part 2; 5 Connecting With Independent Self-Help Recovery Groups; Founders; Starting a Local Chapter; Linking People With Self-Help; Professional Leadership of Self-Help Groups; Ethical Issues Related to Linking to Self-Help by Professionals; 6 Facilitating Support Groups; The Preformation Stage; Who Needs the Group?; What Kind of Program Do You Want?; Do You Have Enough Potential Members?

Will the Group Be Time-Limited, or Will It Continue Indefinitely?Do You Have an Appropriate Meeting Place?; Who Will Lead the Group-a Member or a Professional/Staff Person?; Leadership; The Forming Stage; The Storming Stage; The Norming Stage; The Performing Stage; Problems That Come Up in Support Groups; Member Attrition and Absences; The Monopolizer; Bringing Outsiders to the Meeting; Inappropriate Emotional Expressions; Unwillingness to Risk in the Group; Leader Burnout; Postmeeting Upsets; Coming to the Meeting Drunk or High on Drugs; Diverse Populations Not Represented.

Confessions of Criminal Behavior7 How Recovery Groups Help; Cohesiveness; Universality; Instillation of Hope; Support; Giving Information and Advice; Achieving a Sense of Belonging; Making a Difference and Having a Sense of Mattering; Teaching Coping Methods; Identity Transformation; Becoming Empowered; Achieving Insight; Reframing; New Way of Life and Redefinition of Self; Encouraging Helping Factors; Avoiding Unhelpful Factors; 8 Analyzing a Group's Climate, Philosophy, and Structure; Social Climate in Groups; Group Philosophy or Worldview; Group Structure; Twelve-Step Meeting Structure.

9 Who Needs a Group? The Process of AffiliationWho Comes Back; Being an Extrovert and Need for Affiliation; Openness to Spirituality; The Importance of Group Fit; Affiliation as a Process; Stages of Change-Readiness; Processes of Change; 10 Four Models of Self-Help Recovery Groups; Al-Anon Family Groups; History; Program; Research; Meeting Structure; Starting a Group; Recovery International; History; Program; Research; Meeting Structure; Starting a Group; Schizophrenics Anonymous; History; Program; Research; Meeting Structure; Starting a Group; Dual Recovery Anonymous; History.

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 b.

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