Trauma groups: An overview

Group Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-202

  Weinberg, Haim ^a,b,c,d   Nuttman Shwartz, Orit ^e,f,g   Gilmore, Martha ^d,h  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d Sapir Academic College ^*  (United States)

^e SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g American Group Psychotherapy Association   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Countertransference; Group therapist; Trauma; Trauma groups; Trauma survivors; Vicarious traumatization

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP THERAPY; LEADERSHIP; LIFE EVENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPORT GROUP; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 22044436114     PISSN: 05333164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0533316405052378     Document Type: Review

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