Main description:

Healing in Action: Adventure-Based Counseling with Therapy Groups is a practical guide for therapists wanting to integrate interactive games and challenges into their work. It provides current research supporting using ABC with trauma survivors and those recovering from addictions, as well as its efficacy with a broader population. Twelve activity-based chapters take the reader through various one-hour sessions of activities based on a particular theme or material used, complete with 50 descriptive photos of groups in action. Therapists will be able to use these activities to help their patients experience in vivo the joy, freedom and playfulness that are the hallmarks of sound mental health.

With its combination of sound theoretical material and practical application, this book is a valuable resource for practitioners and graduate students alike.

Contents:

Introduction
The ABC's of Adventure-Based Counseling
Part I
History and Theoretical Underpinnings of ABC
Chapter 1
Group Theory Applied to ABC
Chapter 2
ABC for Trauma Survivors
Chapter 3
Unique Attributes of ABC and Some Practical Matters
Part II
ABC in Outpatient Mental Health Settings
Chapter 4
Overview of a Session
Chapter 5
Can Day: Discovering New Abilities within You3/4What "Can" You Do?
Chapter 6
Noodle Day: Using Your Brain for Positive Growth and Change
Chapter 7
Ball Day: So-Long, Gym Class; Hello, Self-Acceptance
Chapter 8
Word Day: Saying and Playing What You Mean
Chapter 9
Paper Day: Beyond Reading and Writing On
Chapter 10
Numbers Day: Multiply Your Strengths!
Chapter 11
Rope Day: Securing Success
Chapter 12
Playing Card Day: Everybody Wins!
Chapter 13
Tarp Day: An Indoor Adventure
Chapter 14
No Prop Day: Pure Fun-Willingness Not Included
Chapter 15
Animal Day: Let Your Essence Shine
Chapter 16
Balloon Day: Finding the Levity within You
Part III
Adventure-Based Counseling for Recovery from Addiction
Chapter 17
Walking the Walk: ABC and Recovery from Addiction
Chapter 18
Recovery Adventure Day