title: Trauma group psychotherapy for the adolescent female client.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Therapeutic uses of adolescent trauma group psychotherapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate the role of the psychiatric nurse/group facilitator to prevent and treat adolescent emotional distress resulting from trauma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published literature, author's clinical experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adolescent trauma group therapy is useful to deal with emotional, behavioral, maturational/developmental, physiological, cognitive, and solution-focused issues.
authors.affiliation: Regis University, Denver, CO, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ellensweig-Tepper
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*