Future Publications
	Toolkit for Healthy Groups
	Dr. Steiner shares tools that work best to make the nuts and bolts come together for smoothly running, helpful, responsive and dynamic group sessions.
Nuts and Bolts of Starting Groups (available in September 2008) Dr. Steiner provides a hands-on approach to the challenges of forming and maintaining cohesive, durable and effective groups.

The Nuts and Bolts of Starting Groups: A Manual for Starting and Maintaining Healthy Groups

My screening and preparation system for establishing therapy groups is collaborative in nature. Over the years patients have found that the forms I have developed help them think through what they want out being in a therapy group. By using the forms and focusing on important areas when screening potential group members, clients and I decide whether they are likely to both benefit from and contribute to the group.  Now that I use the forms and worksheets I developed, new group members feel more connected to the group process and the groups have significantly less turnover.

Whenever I teach 'The Nuts and Bolts of Starting and Maintaining Healthy Groups,' participants ask for copies of the forms and worksheets I have developed."

This new handy guidebook includes templates that can be modified based on particular needs. Practical tools include:

• Group/Life History Forms
• Sample Group Agreements
• Designing Group Agreements that Fit Your Group
• Agreements for Healthy Termination in Groups
• Different Groups for Different Folks: From Self-Help to Psychodynamic Groups
• Tools for Self-Help Group Leaders

RELATED MATERIALS FOR GROUP THERAPISTS

The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness:
How to Add Joy to the Ride™ (in process)

Group therapists who work with the medically ill are likely to be interested in this upcoming book.This easy-to-read, self-help work benefits providers, patients and all whose lives are affected by ill relatives or friends.

This upbeat, practical guide for people living with chronic illnesses helps readers find new ways to make the most of life with limitations, deal with the challenges that illness brings to trust, intimacy, and other relationship issues. 

Included are worksheets and materials that have been road-tested over a long career of offering one-on-one counsel, lecturing, and presentations to professionals, patients, caregivers, family members, and laypeople.

Dr. Steiner is a psychotherapist specializing in work with the medically ill.  She has lived with arthritis since she was fourteen. As an author, professional speaker and former wheelchair user, she has a natural compassion and wisdom about the challenges of bringing joy, comfort and meaning to those with limitations.  Many insightful discoveries from her personal challenges are distilled into the book and its worksheets.

Until the book is published you may want to learn more about Dr. Steiner's work on this topic, The Rollercoaster of Chronic Illness: How to Add Joy to the Ride CD

Group therapists, like all professionals, should ensure their group members experience a smooth transition should the therapist be unexpectedly absent due to illness or death. 

Dr. Steiner has created this CD, with it's downloadable Therapist's Professional Will,™ a document that spells out your wishes for the continuing care of your clients in your absence.

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