Coping with crises, achieving stability, enabling change. A handbook for group presentations and self-help

By Marie Boden, Doris Rolke

Subject:
Imparting stabilisation techniques for people suffering from mental disorders so that they can get to grips with their emotional problems as well as emerging crises.

Target audience:
Therapists working in the area of psychiatry who moderate stabilisation groups as well as people suffering from mental disorders can use this book as a self-help manual.

Content:

This handbook imparts stabilisation techniques for people with mental disorders and gives suggestions to help in coping with emerging acute crises. The material has been developed for groups in the areas of inpatient and ambulant psychiatric treatment. Aside from clinical environments it can be used in supervised housing or for self-help. The theoretical basis for stabilisation groups is Marsha Linehan’s dialectic behavioural therapy, which is supplemented by Luise Reddemann’s imagination-exercises and elements from euthymic therapy (positive experience training).

Authors:

Marie Boden, educator, graduate designer for photography, freelance artist.
Doris Rolke, social and milieu pedagogue, graduate social pedagogue. The authors work in the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy clinic in Bielefeld.

Original title:

"Krisen bewältigen, Stabilität erhalten, Veränderung ermöglichen. Ein Handbuch zur Gruppenmoderation und zur Selbsthilfe"

Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn, 199 Pages, CD-ROM with worksheets, 19.90 EUR.
First published in 2008.

For further information please contact: Ms Kerstin Zander.