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Counseling Clients in a Group Setting

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Shechtman , Z (2000 . Short-term treatment of childhood aggression Outcomes and process . Psychology in the School , 37 ,157-167

Children and adolescents group treatments have progressed well since their beginning . Therapeutic groups often apply expressive media for emotional communication (Schamess , 2008 . These activities encourage the participants to expressive themselves without being pressured Therapists have to learn to understand these non-verbal forms of communication . There are many financial and institutional factors limiting the mental health practitioners from conducting empirical research in this field

(Schamess , 2008 . However , many influential authors have worked toward these limitations and have tried merging theoretical and technical issues to differentiate adult therapy groups from children 's

One of these authors is Zipora Shechtman , who has written extensive and practical details about practice techniques in her book Group Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (Schamess , 2008 . The first section is about children and adolescents counseling and psychotherapy , second section is about the practice of group therapy dealing with treatment issues and stages (Schamess , 2008 . The third section deals with accountability and group process , and section four contains conclusion and directions for future (Schamess , 2008

Shechtman gives an expressive supportive approach (Schamess , 2008 . She believes in self disclosure and mutual support rather than in correcting mistakes (Schamess , 2008 . Her approach is humanistic and holds development factors and stressful life events responsible for problems of a child (Schamess , 2008 . She divides children 's diss into two categories of externalizing and internalizing . She uses...

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