RE: Group Therapy Programs for Abused Children

["Reiman, Beth" <ReimanB@xxxxxxxx>]

Do you have any idea where this manual can be obtained? Thanks
Beth Reiman
Westchester Institute for Human Development

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Anna Hagemeister [SMTP:AHAGEMEI@che.umn.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, February 03, 2003 7:22 PM
> To:	Child Maltreatment Researchers
> Subject:	Re: Group Therapy Programs for Abused Children
> 
> If it has not already been noted, check into the manual developed by the
> Domestic Abuse Project, Minneapolis, MN; E. Peled & D. Davis (1995).
> Groupwork with children of battered women: A practitioners' manual. Sage
> Publications. We're still using the model to this day. The same basic
> model has been used at the agency for about 15 years, now.
> A. Hagemeister
> St. Paul, MN
> 
> >>> BRubin525@aol.com 02/02/03 16:25 PM >>>
> I am currently looking for empirically validated (or just high quality) 
> treatment manuals that would allow us to provide groups for 1.  Physically
> 
> abused and neglected children      2.  Children in Foster Care 3.
> Children 
> exposed to Domestic Violence and 4.  Children of substance abusing
> parents.  
> These are often the same children.  I am really looking for group therapy 
> treatment manuals, however, I am also interested in what people have found
> 
> are the very best treatment articles that they know.
> I am the Director of a Child Abuse Treatment Program and we would like to 
> expand our services to include group treatment-however, I am not finding
> very 
> many useful treatment models.
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Bart Rubin, Ph.D.
> Alliant International University
> Center for Family Healing of the Family Institute of Pinole
> Berkeley, California 94564
>