Trauma-Informed Principles in Group Therapy, Psychodrama, and Organizations: Action Methods for Leadership

This book provides practical guidelines, detailed instructions, and diverse examples for facilitating trauma-informed and trauma-focused groups in treatment, community, and organizational leadership. It focuses on safety, empowerment, social justice, vicarious trauma, and leadership, and approaches organizational leadership through the lens of SAMHSAs guidance and the framework of group work leadership.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 306 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the realm of trauma-informed principles, encompassing ethical, safe, and effective group work, psychodrama, and leadership. It provides practical guidelines, detailed instructions, and diverse examples to facilitate trauma-informed and trauma-focused groups in various contexts, including treatment, community, and organizational leadership. The chapters focus on diverse topics such as safety, empowerment, social justice, vicarious trauma, and leadership.

Organizational leadership is approached through the lens of SAMHSA's guidance and the framework of group work leadership. The book emphasizes the significance of sociometry and psychodrama as strengths-based and experiential group approaches. It articulates psychodrama philosophies, theories, and interventions through a trauma-informed lens, offering psychodramatists, group workers, and organizational leaders new conceptual frameworks and action-based processes.

The chapters blend theory, research, practical guidance, and examples from the authors' extensive experience. This book appeals to a wide range of professionals, including group workers, therapists, psychodramatists, creative arts therapists, organizational leaders, trainers, facilitators, supervisors, community organizers, and graduate students. It equips group facilitators with the insights and tools to lead engaging and meaningful groups while addressing the potential for retraumatization and promoting trauma-informed practice as an ethical imperative.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032234779