Group Therapy with Children (eBook)

Alfons Aichinger, Head of the Caritas Association’s Psychological Counselling Centre for Parents, Children and Youth in Ulm, Germany for 37 years; Supervisor and Head of Advanced Training at the Moreno Institut in Stuttgart and the Szenen Institut in Cologne, Germany. Walter Holl, Child and adolescent psychotherapist in Ulm, Germany and Head of Advanced Training at the Moreno Institut in Stuttgart, Germany. 

Foreword to the English-Language Edition 5
Foreword to the Second German Edition 7
Foreword to the First German Edition 8
Contents 10
1 Introduction 13
Abstract 13
2 Preparing for the Group 19
Abstract 19
2.1 Indication 19
2.2 Size and Composition of the Group 21
2.2.1 The Children 21
2.2.2 The Dual-Gender Therapist Team 22
2.3 The Contract 23
2.4 Accompanying Work with the Family or Parents 26
3 The External Framework 27
Abstract 27
3.1 Furnishing and Equipping the Group Space 27
3.2 The Temporal Framework 29
4 The Structure of a Psychodrama Session and Therapeutic Techniques 31
Abstract 31
4.1 The Initial Phase 31
4.2 The Play Phase 47
4.2.1 Attunement 48
4.2.2 Instigation 49
4.2.3 Structure 53
4.2.4 Changing Roles and Role Inversion 58
4.2.5 Mirroring 64
4.2.6 The Soliloquy 70
4.2.7 Doubling and Permanent Doubles 71
4.2.8 Interpretive Interventions 85
4.2.9 Active Interpretation with Traumatised Children 95
4.3 The Closing Phase 99
5 The Complete Group Process 103
Abstract 103
5.1 The Beginning Phase 103
5.1.1 Structuring the First Group Session 107
5.1.2 The Situation of the Therapists in the First Group Session 113
5.1.3 Developing a Group Theme 114
5.1.4 The Fifth Session 119
5.2 The Middle Phase 120
5.3 The Concluding Phase 123
6 Special Interventions for Individual Children 130
Abstract 130
6.1 Interventions with Inhibited or Anxious Children 131
6.1.1 Psychodynamics 131
6.1.2 Leader Interventions 132
6.1.3 Interventions from Within a Role 136
6.2 Interventions with Aggressive Children 140
6.2.1 Leader Interventions 142
6.2.2 Interventions from Within a Role 148
7 Group Process Oriented Interventions 152
Abstract 152
7.1 Interventions in Conflicts Between Children and Leaders 153
7.2 Oedipal Conflict in the Group 159
7.3 Interventions in Relationship Conflicts Between the Children 168
7.3.1 Interventions at the Verbal Level 171
7.3.2 Interventions at the Action Level 172
7.3.3 Relationship-Building Interventions 183
7.4 Subgroup Formation 193
8 Demands on the Therapists 197
Abstract 197
8.1 Aspects of Transference 197
8.2 Transferences by the Therapists 199
8.3 Transference Processes in Different Group Phases 201
8.4 Problems of Cotherapy 204
9 Operating in Networks 208
Abstract 208
Final Note 222
Afterword to the English-Language Edition 224
Literature 226