Section outline

  • Topic:  Group work with children and adolescents.

    A.    Types of groups:  structured/unstructured; time-limited/open-ended; groups in context.

    B.    A brief discussion of therapeutic play groups with latency aged children.

    C.    School based groups:  Do’s and Don’ts

    D.    Craig Stevens, Ph.D.  “Feedback Groups in Schools”.

    E.    An overview of the “ways and whys” of adolescent therapy groups- office based.

    Readings:

    Required: 

    Boyd-Webb, N. (2019)   Chapter 8.

    Shechtman, Z.  (2007)  Group Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents:  Theory, Research, and Practice.  New Jersey:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  Chapters 2 & 4, pp. 16-29, and 42-54.

    Meeks, J. with Bernet, W.  (2002)  The Fragile Alliance.  Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co   Chapter 9, “Group psychotherapy of the adolescent”, pp. 211 – 238.