Groups for Adolescents

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Groups for Adolescents

• Chapter 10

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Groups for Adolescents

• Organizing an adolescent group
• Conduct a needs assessment
• Develop a written proposal
• Market your group
• Get informed consent from parents or guardians
• Conduct pregroup interviews
• Select members for the group
• Design a plan for each of the group sessions
• Arrange for follow-up group session after
  termination

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Hints Working with Reluctant Adolescent Group
Members

• Explain the rationale of the group in
  jargon-free language
• Allow members to express reactions to being sent
  to group
• Go with resistance Dont go against resistance
• Avoid getting defensive
• Be clear and firm with your boundaries

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Sample Group Proposal Multiple Family Group
Therapy

• Philosophy of group and overall goals
• Overview of group
• Group format weekly sessions
• Practical considerations
• Contraindications to participation in group
• Outcomes of group

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Key Points Groups for Adolescents

• Understand and respect resistance
• Role-playing techniques can often be creatively
  used in adolescent groups
• Find ways to involve parents!
• Co-leadership models are especially useful in
  facilitating an adolescent group

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Examples of groups for teens . . .

• Drug rehabilitation groups
• Groups for unwed teenage fathers or mothers
• Delinquency prevention groups
• Adolescent sex offender treatment groups