The conversation group: using group psychoanalytic techniques to resolve resistances of recently immigrated Chinese students to learning English in a high school setting.
Does group psychoanalytic theory and technique have an application in an ordinary high school classroom? In this article, the writer describes a research project in which she attempts to answer this question by applying the techniques with a group of recently immigrated Chinese students who wished to improve their spoken English.
Zaretsky
Sheila
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Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, Livingston, New Jersey, USA. zaretsky@concentric.net
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People / Q000193:education*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000193:education*; D008297:Male; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012574:Schools; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching; D014167:Transference, Psychology