Let's discover health and happiness play groups: A model for psychoeducation of young children with parents in addiction recovery

Hope‐Focused and Forgiveness‐Based Group Interventions to Promote Marital Enrichment

“…Psychoeducational groups have historically been a component of graduate training for mental health professionals (Wilson, Coyne, & Ward, 1994). Across time, the topics that have been addressed in psychoeducational groups have been wide-ranging, including promoting marriages (Kaiser, Hahlweg, Fehm-Wolfsdorf, & Groth, 1998;Long, Angera, Carter, Nakamoto, & Kalso, 1999;Zimpfer, 1990), supporting families (Hunter, Hoffnung, & Ferholt, 1988), training parents (Cwiakala & Mordock, 1996;Kiselica, Rotzien, & Doms, 1994), supporting adolescents (Kiselica et al, 1994;Rice & Meyer, 1994;Yoshikawa, 1994), caretaking for elderly family members (Schwiebert & Myers, 1994), coping with psychological disorders (Fristad, Gavazzi, Centolella, & Soldano, 1996;Twoey, 1997), promoting forgiveness (McCullough & Worthington, 1994, 1995Worthington, Sandage, & Berry, 2000), and coping with substance abuse problems (Stanton & Shadish, 1997).…”

Present Status and Future Directions for Empirically Based Play Interventions for Children.

“…Although much progress has been made, play interventions for a number of childhood disorders and problems have not been fully examined. For example, there are prevention programs that treat bereavement (e.g., Griffin, 2001;Masterman & Reams, 1988), children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS (e.g., Leavitt, Morrison, Gardner, & Gallagher, 1996;Willemsen & Anscombe, 2001), and children of substance dependent parents (e.g., Carmichael & Lane, 1997;Cwiakala & Mordock, 1996). However, the majority of these prevention programs are not well controlled or empirically validated.…”