Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children

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.

Preface

vii

Contributors

xiii

Part I: Short-Term Groups for Children Under Stress

1. Children with Maternal Loss

3

(20)

Grace C. Zambelli and Arnold P. DeRosa

2. Children of Separation/Divorce

23

(36)

Claude A. Guldner

3. Siblings of Children with Cancer

59

(20)

Eli Somer, Ora Gilbar, and Michael Dolgin

4. Low-Achieving Elementary School Children

79

(28)

Zipora Shechtman

5. Children of Alcoholics

107

(32)

Renate I. Rohde

Part II: Short-Term Groups for Anxious, Fearful, or Traumatized Children

6. Sexually Abused Preteen Girls

139

(44)

Pearl Berman

7. Sexually Abused Boys

183

(36)

Rayleen V. De Luca, Alana D. Grayston, and Elisa Romano

8. Traumatized and Neglected Children

219

(30)

Kay Martel Connors and Gerald Schamess

9. Child Anxiety Disorders

249

(28)

Paula M. Barrett

10. Children Afraid of the Dark

277

(24)

David V. Sheslow and Elizabeth deLancey Lewis

Part III: Short-Term Groups for Aggressive, Encopretic, or Overweight Children

11. Anger Management with Aggressive Children

301

(50)

John E. Lochman, David P. FitzGerald, and Janet M. Whidby

12. Mildly to Moderately Overweight Children and Adolescents

351

(28)

Donna R. White and Lise Gauvin

13. Retentive En.copresis

379

(26)

Lisa Opipari, Deborah L. Miller, Randi Streisand, and Lori J. Stark

Part IV: Short-Term Groups for Children in Foster or Inpatient Care

14. Children in Alternate Care

405

(34)

David Mellor, Shane Storer, and Lucy Firth

15. Inpatient Settings

439

(44)

Jay C. Williams

Index

483

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Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children Adapting Group Processes for Specific Problems

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