
Adolescent Group Therapy
A Social Competency Model
- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why Group Therapy for Adolescents?
- 3 Selected Varieties of Therapy
- 4 Physical Settings
- 5 Techniques, Start-up, and Development
- 6 Transition Phase
- 7 Dealing with Changes in the Group
- 8 Themes and Possible Curative Factors
- 9 Why Co-therapy?
- 10 Training and Supervision
- 11 Summary and Implications
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index