An Overview of Group Therapy with Adolescents

Kraft, Irvin A.

doi:10.1080/00207284.1968.11508392

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“…The most recent review of all of the group literature for children and adolescents was Hoag and Burlingame's (1997) meta-analysis of 56 outcome studies that met their criteria, which were published between 1974 and 1997; Durlak and Wells's (1997) meta-analysis of the prevention literature reviewed 177 studies that met their criteria, reported by the end of 1991; Dagley et al's (1994) review of the group literature included the 27 studies that met their criteria, which were reported from 1980 to 1992. Several other reviews of the literature have been published, beginning in the late 1960s (Gazda & Larsen, 1968; Kraft, 1968); for a summation of these reviews, see Dagley et al (1994). Therefore, the only child and adolescent group research review that covers roughly the same time period as the present one is Hoag and Burlingame's; theirs was a broader review, covering all of the literature rather than focusing on a specific topic such as prevention, yet it was methodologically more rigorous owing to their use of the meta-analytic method.…”

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A Comprehensive Review of Prevention Groups for Children and Adolescents.

Kulic¹,

Horne²,

Dagley³

2004

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Primary prevention has increasingly become a focus of the child and adolescent research literature over the past 25 years. Groups are a natural milieu within which to work with children and adolescents. The current research reviews the literature on child and adolescent prevention-oriented group interventions for the decade 1990 -2000 to follow up the work of previous reviews in this area, identify current trends, and suggest future directions for the literature.

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A Comprehensive Review of Prevention Groups for Children and Adolescents.

Kulic¹,

Horne²,

Dagley³

2004

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…Such literature that there is shows a steady increase in the use of group work both with children and adolescents but a dearth of information about what they set out to achieve, or whether they are successful (e.g. Kraft, 1968;Frank and Zilbach, 1968;Meeks, 1974;Abramowitz, 1976). Quite a lot has been written about group psychotherapists' personal experiences but what shines through the literature is the variation in approach and how different are the groups on which they base their experience.…”

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The introduction of small group work to an adolescent unit

Steinberg¹,

Merry²,

Collins³

1978

Journal of Adolescence

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Some principles on which small group work with adolescents can be based are described, and an account is given of its introduction to a unit where the high number of transient staff in training could militate against the successful operation of group work. Problems presented by two important aspects of the unit's policies—emphasis on multidisciplinary work, and the wide range of diagnoses among the boys and girls admitted to the unit—are discussed. It is concluded that small group work can be introduced and maintained in such settings and that it enables staff to enahance their skills in working together and with adolescents.Whilst we have as yet no positive research data proving its efficacy, our impression nevertheless is that patients benefit sufficiently to justify continuing with small group work. Attempts are planned to define the various aims of group work more closely and to devise means of assessing results.

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“…Group programs for children have focused on brief interpretive psychotherapy (Charach, 1983), combined activity and verbal therapy (Dannefer et al, 1975), and talking clubs (Sands & Golub, 1974). Kraft (1968), Berkowitz (1972, and Sugar (1979) focus on the client's developmental stage and how that influences the structure and dynamics of the group.…”

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Group psychotherapy as a technique for assisting ego-impaired children and adolescents

Winek

Faulkner

1994

Group

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This paper describes an approach to working with ego-impaired children and adolescents. The structure and process of psychotherapy groups within a residential program are discussed. We describe how insight-oriented groups act as a collective superego, thereby encouraging maturation. Functions of the group relating to socialization, milieu issues, peer issues, family relationships, personal issues, selfesteem, empowerment, and special issues are discussed. The focus of the discussion is on the structure and process of the groups. Brief clinical vignettes are utilized to illustrate components of the approach.This paper describes an approach to working with children and adolescents who have impaired ego functioning. We have found that daily participation in group psychotherapy is the cornerstone of a residential treatment program. One way a program can work toward helping such ego-impaired children is by utilizing groups as a collective superego, which in turn facilitates ego development within these youths. This paper describes how an eclectic approach to treating children and adolescents in groups fosters ego development. The focus of this discussion will be on how the structure and process of the group facilitates the client's progress.Our approach helps clients address a variety of issues in the group session, such as transference, socialization into and out of the home, milieu issues, peer issues, family relations, personal issues, self-esteem, empowerment, and special issues. While, for purposes of presentation, these topics are discussed separately, we do not assume them to be mutually exclusive. In fact, within a single group session, different clients can be working on a variety of issues. We offer several brief clinical vignettes to illustrate the issues discussed. We describe the more structured uses of the group first and conclude with a discussion of less structured group tasks. A unique aspect of this approach is that this program treats children and adolescents with ego impairment in the same group sessions. Our approach derives from the ideas developed in both the child and adolescent group psychotherapy literature as well as from our experience.

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An Overview of Group Therapy with Adolescents

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

A Comprehensive Review of Prevention Groups for Children and Adolescents.

A Comprehensive Review of Prevention Groups for Children and Adolescents.

The introduction of small group work to an adolescent unit

Group psychotherapy as a technique for assisting ego-impaired children and adolescents

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