title: [Group psychotherapy with epileptic adolescents during initial vocational training].
abstract: When the therapeutic alliance between physician or psychotherapist, and epileptic patient is seriously disrupted (non-compliance) group psychotherapy is capable of bringing about marked changes in coping with the epileptic condition. Even a brief therapy of 20 sessions with epileptic young people undergoing initial vocational training contributes to their learning to perceive problems present in their vocational-social development, as well as various disease phenomena and therapeutic possibilities. Eight young adults aged 18-20 years who had been referred to the Annedore Leber Vocational Training Centre for psychological and neurological examination suffered from frequent seizures, which had in each case been attributable to non-compliance. On completion of therapy, serum levels of anti-epileptic drugs had reached the therapeutic range. None of them failed to complete their vocational training.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Gruppenpsychotherapie mit anfallskranken Jugendlichen während der beruflichen Erstausbildung.