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Individual and Group Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents

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Nine-year-old Ellie has been a worrier since early childhood. In the preschool years, she was afraid to be alone in her room, and terrified when her parents left her with a babysitter. Now in primary school, Ellie is afraid to speak in class, and she is so shy during lunch that she looks for empty classrooms, where she can eat hidden from view. Melanie, age 13, has long tended to see dark clouds rather than silver linings, but she has seemed genuinely depressed since members of her social group began to exclude her. She has lost confidence in herself, can’t sleep, has no appetite, cries behind her locked bedroom door, and recently told her mother, “No one likes me. Fm an outcast.” Eleven-year-old Max speeds through his house leaving a path of destruction in his wake. He means no harm, but he is so impulsive and distractible that each day is a series of collisions, spills, scars on the wall, and broken objects. At school he is unable to attend to his teacher or a class discussion for more than a few minutes, he sometimes blurts out inappropriate comments, and some of his peers joke that Kevin is “from outer space”.

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Weisz, J.R., Jung, E. (2004). Individual and Group Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_12

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