<p>An outstanding contribution to group development theory and its impact on practice! This highly readable work analyzes in a clear, organized manner the dynamics of group formation and development and its impact on the individual members and group therapist. The individual, the sub-group, and the group-as-a-whole issues that characterize each stage of the therapeutic process are clearly presented. In presenting these issues, the author offers valuable practical suggestions and guides for therapeutic interventions that never lose sight of the individual member's needs, conflicts, and aspirations.</p>

Group psychotherapy: Practice and development

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Levine, Baruch

Psychology & Counseling

PRENTICE/HALL

The second volume in an ongoing series sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), "Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East" examines the impact of debt, private land ownership, and urbanization on ancient societies. Evidence of privatization of land is supported by archaeological data, surviving documents, and financial records.  This volume contains three sets of papers ranging from the Ice Age through early Egypt and Bronze Age Sumer, Babylonia, and Israel, given by archaeologists, economists, Assyriologists, and Egyptologists.  The first set of papers deals with the social cosmology of early urban areas as ritual centers. The second set focuses on the physical archaeology of Near Eastern cities and reconstructs their land-use patterns. The final set examines what Assyriologists have been able to extract from the cuneiform record concerning urban land use, land tenure, and the emergence of real estate as something privately owned and transferable.  One of the most valuable parts of this volume is the oral discussion of each paper by the participants. Highlighting the different methodologies used in each discipline and the difficulties in establishing a common vocabulary, these discussions raise universal questions concerning ancient economies and their relevancy to long-term economic trends.  The first volume in this series was "Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World," edited by Michael Hudson and Baruch A. Levine (Peabody Museum Bulletin 5, ISBN 0-87365-955-4).

Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East (Peabody Museum Bulletin, #7)

Business & Money

Eds.

Economics

Eisenbrauns

Group Psychotherapy: Practice and Development

Waveland Pr Inc.

<p>Here is an exciting and informative volume on the use of social group work in psychiatric settings. As it affirms the significance of social group work’s clinical potential, Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled fosters further development in this highly specialized area of human service.Baruch Levine, a prestigious social group worker and clinical theorist, has edited this exceptional volume that emphasizes the coexistence of mental illness and mental health in effective group experiences for treating mental disability. Readers are treated to a comprehensive history of the development of the use of social group work practice with the emotionally disabled in psychiatric settings. Other authoritative chapters focus on the practice aspect and explore the problems and issues in group work with the emotionally disabled, the settings for group treatment of the chronically ill and psychiatrically at-risk, and the development of comprehensive approaches to the treatment and rehabilitation of persons with severe mental illness.</p>

Group Work With the Emotionally Disabled (The Social Work With Groups Series)

Mental Health

Routledge

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