Structured Adolescent Psychotherapy Groups

Contains how-to-do-it guidelines for each step in forming and leading an adolescent treatment group including client selection and evaluation, goal setting, evaluating group process, relationships with a co-therapist, and more.Provides specific techniques for use in time-limited structured psychotherapy groups. Offers concrete suggestions for working with "hard to reach" and difficult adolescents, providing feedback to parents, and dealing with administrative, legal, and ethical issues. Examples of pre- and post-evaluation forms, therapy contracts, evaluation feedback letters, parent response forms, therapist rating scales, co-therapist rating forms, problem identification forms, supervision and session records, client and parent handouts, and specific group exercises are provided. Includes empirical data, numerous references, theoretical formulations, and examples of group sessions.Billie Farmer Corder is the author of 'Structured Adolescent Psychotherapy Groups' with ISBN 9780943158747 and ISBN 0943158745.