title: Reflections on a developing body of group-as-a-whole theory for children's therapy groups: an introduction.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA 01063.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schamess
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010379:Peer Group; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group