Research Catalog

Title

Group therapy with children and adolescents / edited by Paul Kymissis and David A. Halperin.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Halperin, David A.
• Kymissis, Paul, 1944-

Description

xix, 405 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Group Therapy With Children and Adolescents explores a major treatment modality often used with adult populations but rarely considered for child and adolescent treatments. With contributions from experts in the United States and abroad, this book looks at the effectiveness - in both treatment and cost - of group therapy as it applies to these particular age groups.

Subject

• Group psychotherapy for children
• Group psychotherapy for teenagers
• Psychotherapy, Group > Adolescent
• Psychotherapy, Group > Child
• Psychotherapy, Group > methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Michael G. Kalogerakis -- Introduction / Paul Kymissis and David A. Halperin -- 1. History / Irvin A. Kraft -- 2. Developmental Approach to Socialization and Group Formation / Paul Kymissis -- 3. The Unfolding of Adolescent Groups: A Five-Phase Model of Development / Kathryn R. Dies -- 4. Developmental Models of Adolescent Groups / P. Wells Shambaugh -- 5. Diagnostic Groups for School-Age Children: Group Behavior and DSM-IV Diagnosis / Mala R. Gupta, Jo Rosenberg Hariton and Paulina F. Kernberg -- 6. Children in Groups: Indications and Contexts / Arthur J. Swanson -- 7. Supervision / Edward S. Soo -- 8. Anatomy of Exits From Inpatient Adolescent Therapy / Harvey Roy Greenberg -- 9. Analyst Self-Disclosure in Adolescent Groups / Arnold Wm. Rachman and Velleda C. Ceccoli -- 10. A Structured, Educative Form of Adolescent Psychotherapy / Sandra Swirsky Strome and Erica M. Loutsch -- 11. Therapeutic Use of Theater With Adolescents / Emily Nash --
• 12. Helping Adolescents Deal With Death on an Inpatient Pediatric Unit / Penelope Buschman Gemma -- 13. Mentally Handicapped Children and Adolescents / Brendan McCormack, Valerie Sinason and B. A. Hons -- 14. Adolescents Who Abuse Substances / David W. Brook -- 15. A Five-Phase Model for Adolescents Who Abuse Substances / Henry I. Spitz and Susan T. Spitz -- 16. Adolescents Who Have Eating Disorders / Ellyn Shander and Sheila A. Orbanic -- 17. Suicidal Adolescents / Don R. Heacock -- 18. Teen Line: A Listening Post for Troubled Youth / Elaine Leader -- 19. Culture and Ethnicity / Alberto Serrano and Susan Hou -- 20. Groups During the Gulf War Crisis: Intimacy and Transference Issues / Stanley Schneider and Yechezkel Cohen -- 21. Cults and Children: A Group Dynamic Perspective on Child Abuse Within Cults / David A. Halperin -- 22. Status of Adolescent Research / Fern J. Cramer Azima.

ISBN

0880486546 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95019715

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries