Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this volume presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group treatment for the chronically mentally ill.

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Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this volume presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group treatment for the chronically mentally ill. This flexibly bound' model structures members' variable attendance while utilizing group dynamic principles to maximize therapeutic opportunities. The author focuses on the impact and opportunities of group treatment to help members overcome inhibitions in expressing their needs, assert themselves, and manage the inevitable hurts and disappointments in their relationships. The group functions as a transition point from which members can learn new ways of interacting and then apply them in their everyday lives.

"The book, in its comprehensiveness, practicality, and clinical wisdom, should appeal both to the training therapist who is thrown into the clinical arena with minimal conceptual grounding and to the senior clinician who will appreciate the collegial sharing of an approach that at times seems to be on the endangered-species list."
-International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

In a compelling and sensitive book, Walter Stone has created an exceptional didactic experience that pr ovides new enthusiasm for this too often neglected population. Group therapy comes alive in a manner that is comprehensible and applicable. This is a book for anyone interested in the chronically mentally ill; and for those who are not interested, beware, this book may alter your opinion."
-Samuel J. Keith, MD, Professor and Chairman, Dept of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico