This book offers a health-oriented, integrative approach to
adolescent group therapy. George R. Holmes and his associates
believe that promoting social competency in each adolescent group
member is central to successful therapy. The enablement of
interpersonal skills neutralizes the environmentally sponsored
psychopathology that adolescents use to survive. The authors also
emphasize the co-therapy relationship. They offer recommendations
for supervising trainee therapists and for applying their model to
other contexts, such as high schools.
The authors discuss strategies developed in their clinical work,
covering such issues as scapegoating, silence, and withdrawal. They
explore how processes, roles, and meaningful issues change over the
life of the group. Social competency should be the main focus, they
argue: it is essential to nurturing self-parenting skills and a
healthy identity. The co-therapy relationship--the interaction
between co-therapists and among co-therapists and group
members--also greatly determines therapeutic change. The book
includes recommendations for supervising trainee therapists and for
applying this model to other contexts, such as high schools.
"Adolescent Group Therapy" will be of interest to students and to
teachers and professionals in psychology, counseling, vocational
rehabilitation, social work, nursing, education, and child and
adolescent psychiatry.
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