Contents:
Introduction – Haim Weinberg, Arnon Rolnick, and Adam Leighton
Section I: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities in Online Groups: Insights from Research and Theory
1. Research on Online Groups – Gary Burlingame, Rachel Arnold, Tate Paxton, and Alee Rands
2. Miles Away: Alliance and Cohesion in Online Group Therapy – Cheri Marmarosh, Alexandra Robelo, Alicia Solorio, Feng Xing
3. Online Group Psychotherapy: Is the Body Really Necessary? – Nikos Takis
4. From Shrinkage to Expansion – Online Group Therapy that Enables Acquaintance with “Other” Self-States through Dissociation and Enactment – Enav Karniel Lauer
5. “Can I Join Online?” Hybrid Group Therapy Integrating Online Participants In Face-To-Face Groups – Efrat Zigenlaub and Ella Stolper
Section II: Online Group Process Oriented Approaches
6. Modern psychoanalytic group therapy online: Adaptations of theory and technique – Aaron Black and Ellen Wright
7. Group Analytic Therapy and the online groups: Some principles of the group analytic approach to Online group therapy – Robi Friedman
8. Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy Conducted Online – Ruthellen Josselson and Judith Schoenholtz-Read
9. Systems-Centered Therapy and Training Groups Online: Adapting to the Driving and Restraining Forces in an Online Context – Susan Gantt
10. Online Large Groups in Times of Social Turmoil: Helping Individuals and Communities to Work-Through Pandemics and Wars – Gila Ofer, Uri Levin and Stavros Charalambides
Section III: Online Psychodrama, Art Therapy and Adventure based Methods
11. Sociatry and Sociodrama. A New Possibility in Psychodrama Online Reality: Healing Social Trauma – Deniz Altınay
12. Psychodrama On Zoom: The Story Of The Soul – Shelley Korshak Firestone
13. Online Psychodrama Groups with Children – Hanan El-Mazahy
14. Online Art Therapy: Encouraging Creative Healing in The Virtual Space – Iris Lachnit and Meera Rastogi
15. Online Group Art Therapy – the Presence of the Artistic Entity: Experiences with groups of senior citizen women – Dana Bar-Shor
16. Adventure-Based Counseling Online: Bringing Novelty, Physical Engagement, and Shared Problem Solving to a Virtual Format – Barney Straus
Section IV: Online Person-Centered Mechanisms of Change Approaches: Psychoeducational, CBT, ACT & SE Groups
17. Somatic Experiencing Informed Group Psychotherapy Online – Carlos Canales
18. Fostering Intimacy and Participant Engagement on the Zoom Platform: A Practical Beginner’s Manual – Kimberly B. Harrison and Katherine Chapman
19. Online Psychoeducational Groups – Nina Brown
20. Cognitive Behavioural Group Therapy Virtually – Ingrid Söchting
21. ACT as a Group Teletherapy – Darrah Westrup
22. “Can We Zoom Out Of The Hospital?” – Online Behavioral Stress Management Groups – Reut Ron and Anat Laronne
Section V: Training, Teaching and Supervising Groups Online
23. Online group psychotherapy training – Haim Weinberg
24. Establishing a Group Program in Business School and Shifting to the Virtual World – Darryl Pure and Lisa Stefanac
25. Enhancing Supervision Practices: The Promise and Potential of Online Group Supervision – Arnon Rolnick, Adam Leighton, and Haim Weinberg
26. Epilogue: Beyond Group Psychotherapy – Online Groups as the Modern Agora for Enhancing Democracy and Cohesion – Arnon Rolnick
