British Medical Journal 1993; 69(2)244-250
Cite as:
S. Reid, I. Kolvin, "Group psychotherapy for children and adolescents", Archives of Disease in Childhood, Volume 69, No. 2, pp 244-250, (British Medical Journal, 1993).
Abstract:
By definition, group psychotherapy involves the treatment of a number of children in groups by a therapist or co-therapists. These are two main theoretical orientations - psychodynamic and behavioural/cognitive. The latter distinction is not necessarily a clear cut one and a rather simplistic view would be that while behavioural psychotherapy is more geared to helping children towards a deeper understanding of their own behaviour. In this paper we address ourselves to the psychodynamic approach.