Reflections on a developing body of group-as-a-whole theory for children's therapy groups: an introduction.
This essay serves as an introduction to a collection of articles on group psychotherapy for children that appears in the following pages. These articles are an outgrowth of a symposium on children's group treatments presented at the 1990 Annual Conference of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. The present author provides a general overview of relevant literature and offers an orientation to the subsequent theoretical and practical integrations.
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Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA 01063.
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