Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children

Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children
Author: Charles E. Schaefer
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1999
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

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.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition
Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006-08-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1606237314

This volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for any clinician seeking to optimize limited time with clients, the book provides effective methods for treating children struggling with such challenges as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, disruptive behavior, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and parental divorce. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and illustrated with richly detailed case examples. Featuring session-by-session guidelines, chapters demonstrate how to engage clients rapidly, develop appropriate treatment goals, and implement carefully structured brief interventions that yield lasting results.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Third Edition

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Third Edition
Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462527841

"Subject Areas/Keywords: adolescents, art therapy, behavioral problems, brief, child psychotherapy, children, creative therapies, developmental disabilities, emotional problems, families, family, interventions, parents, play therapy, psychological disorders, short-term, solution-focused, trauma DESCRIPTION Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from diverse theoretical orientations show how to tailor brief interventions to each child's needs. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and clinical guidelines are provided. Chapters demonstrate ways to rapidly build alliances with children, adolescents, and their caregivers; plan treatment for frequently encountered clinical problems; and get the most out of play materials and techniques."--

Group Play Therapy

Group Play Therapy
Author: Daniel S. Sweeney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136247203

Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention. More than just an approach to treating children, group play therapy is a life-span approach, undergirded by solid theory and, in this volume, taking wings through exciting techniques. Drawing on their experiences as clinicians and educators, the authors weave theory and technique together to create a valuable resource for both mental health practitioners and advanced students. Therapists and ultimately their clients will benefit from enhancing their understanding of group play therapy.

Planned Short-term Psychotherapy

Planned Short-term Psychotherapy
Author: Bernard L. Bloom
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This book provides in a comprehensive, integrative, analytic, and evaluative overview of the field of planned short-term psychotherapy that will be of great benefit to therapists already in practice. The author considers both clinical and methodological issues pertinent to planned short-term psychotherapy and he examines this emerging field in terms of its health policy implications. Emphasis is placed on actual as well as potential contributions of planned short-term psychotherapy to the field of clinical mental health practice. After describing the history of the field and examining the outcome studies that have evaluated brief psychotherapy, the author introduces and describes 17 different approaches. This is followed by a look at planned short-term psychotherapy in five different clinical settings--including medical settings and group and family settings. The final two chapters deal with general issues that affect the field. For professionals working in the field of psychology/psychotherapy.

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression
Author: Simon Cregeen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919166

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven sessions for parents or carers, designed so that it can be delivered within a public mental health system, such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the UK. It has its origins in psychoanalytic theoretical principles, clinical experience, and empirical research suggesting that psychoanalytic treatment of this duration can be effective for a range of disorders, including depression, in children and young people. The manual explicitly focuses on the treatment of moderate to severe depression, both by detailing the psychoanalytic understanding of depression in young people and through careful consideration of clinical work with this group. It is the first treatment manual to describe psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescents with depression.

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy
Author: Craig Haen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317356381

This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents. Further, this volume illustrates the application of these models to work with the youth of today, whether victims of trauma, adolescents struggling with LGBT issues, or youth with varying common diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorders, depression, and anxiety. It offers chapters presenting a variety of clinical approaches written by experts in these approaches, from classic (play therapy and dialectical behavior therapy) to cutting-edge (attachment-based intervention, mindfulness, and sensorimotor psychotherapy). Because of its broad scope, the book is suitable for a wide audience, from students to first-time group leaders to seasoned practitioners.

Group Psychotherapy with Children

Group Psychotherapy with Children
Author: Haim G. Ginott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1977-07-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1568212917

A practical guide to play therapy with children. This book covers aspects of treatment including the selection of appropriate patients, choice of toys, setting limits, and working with parents. The capabilities of group therapy to foster social interaction and psychological development are shown.

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy
Author: Craig Haen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 131735639X

This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents. Further, this volume illustrates the application of these models to work with the youth of today, whether victims of trauma, adolescents struggling with LGBT issues, or youth with varying common diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorders, depression, and anxiety. It offers chapters presenting a variety of clinical approaches written by experts in these approaches, from classic (play therapy and dialectical behavior therapy) to cutting-edge (attachment-based intervention, mindfulness, and sensorimotor psychotherapy). Because of its broad scope, the book is suitable for a wide audience, from students to first-time group leaders to seasoned practitioners.

Group Psychotherapy with Children

Group Psychotherapy with Children
Author: Tony L. Sheppard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000922073

This book guides the reader through the process of creating evidence-based therapy groups for children. Introducing an interpersonal theoretical framework that maximizes the interactional and experiential learning and growth components of groups with children, this curriculum offers the child group therapist a theoretical foundation that gives structure to existing techniques and an approach that is multiculturally sensitive and grounded in brain science. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms of change that operate in children’s groups is central to the theme, including an emphasis on play and "learning by doing" through real-life clinical examples which permit readers of all levels to achieve a better understanding of how child groups function. Readers of this book will come away with a deeper understanding of the "power cell" of group therapy: Working interpersonally in the here and now, specifically with children.