Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children

Eclectic Group Conductors and Creative Play

Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck, Niko Bittner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032739465
• eBook ISBN: 9781040100424
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.

The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial behavioural tendencies among children. Based on a process of shared meaning communication, the book explains how professionals can help children to engage in in-group creative play and allow them to experience their self in relation to others. Castrechini-Franieck and Bittner draw on their experiences of working with children in groups, supplemented with therapeutic elements from Gestalt therapy and ontological psychoanalysis. This approach helps children to achieve a stable state of emotional well-being while improving their behaviour at school, along with their social skills.

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children will be a key reading for psychotherapists and other professionals working with vulnerable children including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series: Series editor’s foreword
• German foreword: ‘Together We Are Strong!’ – T-WAS
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART 1 Conceptual source of inspiration
• PART 2 Together We Are Strong (T-WAS)
• Index