How Children and Adolescents Grow and Heal In Groups

In this episode Dr. Craig Haen and Dr. Seth Aronson, psychologists, child and adolescent experts and Fellows of the American Group Psychotherapy Association draw upon their clinical experience and their new edited book, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy to offer an understanding of the power of groups for helping and healing children and adolescents. They address the developmental needs that groups offer any child and the curative factors of different therapeutic group models for children and adolescents, whether victims of trauma, adolescents struggling with LGBT issues, or youth with varying common diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorders, depression, and anxiety. Parents, professionals and anyone who loves children will be moved and informed by this insider glimpse of contemporary group techniques that offer children and adolescents another chance of belonging, safe attachment, tools for socializing, self-regulation and a sense of hope