61st Annual Conference

Workshop 113
Adolescent Group Therapy: Containing and Managing Trauma, Chaos, and Uproar

Presented under the auspices of the Children and Adolescent

Special Interest Group

Chairs:            

Andrew Pojman, Ed.D., Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Graduate School

of Professional Psychology John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California

Judith Tellerman, Ph.D., CGP, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of

Illinois College, Chicago, Illinois

Problems that arise within the adolescent clinical population are frightening, provocative and often life threatening. This workshop will discuss clinical considerations and interventions unique to this population. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to better contain and manage therapist and adolescent feelings and upsetness within the therapeutic group.

didactic-demonstration-sharing of work experiences-experiential

Course References:

1. Azima, F. & Richmond, L. (Eds.) (1989). Adolescent Group Therapy. (American Group    

    Psychotherapy Association, Monograph 4). Madison, CT:

    International Universities Press, Inc.

2. Dies, K. (1991). A model for adolescent group therapy. Journal of child and adolescent

    group therapy, 1, 56-69.

3. Kymissis, P. & Halperin, D. (Eds.)(1996). Group psychotherapy with children and

   adolescents. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.