The short term group approach to child therapy is of enormous clinical
importance. Group therapy complements the normal developmental tasks
that further children's capacities for social interaction and is a
proven method of helping children and adolescents overcome a wide range
of emotional and behavioral problems. This comprehensive manual offers
specific how-to guidelines for conducting a wide range of psychotherapy
groups and detailed session-by-session descriptions of sixteen
structured group interventions. Time-limited, structured, educational,
and goal-oriented, these groups focus on such core treatment issues as
separation and divorce, alcoholism, bereavement, sexual abuse, fears and
anxieties, anger management, weight loss, and encopresis. In this
practical sourcebook of group interventions, experts in child and
adolescent group therapy demonstrate how to achieve therapeutic gains
with a limited number of sessions. A valuable resource for clinicians,
this book also validates using group therapy as a primary, rather than
auxiliary, form of child psychotherapy.