Group Therapy with Adult and Juvenile Offenders

Working with criminal offenders in groups is sometime difficult. Do you sometimes get stuck? Do your clients avoid responding to your questions? Do you have difficulty getting closure? In Group Therapy with Criminal Justice Clients, written for mental health, addictions, and criminal justice professionals, the author Dr. Francis Deisler gives step by step instructions on how to select and screen potential group members, how to work through the group"s developmental stages, how to deal with highly resistant clients, how to get closure every single time with even the most resistant client, client termination, working through denial systematically, and how to develop a cohesive working group.