Describes Project HOPE (New York), a psycho-social support program for noninfected children of HIV-positive parents, including the challenges of starting and implementing the program's psychotherapy group for grieving adolescents and clinical examples of group process and effective interventions in group leadership. Explicates the four stages in group development--safety, dependency, counterdependency, and independence--paralleling the adolescent separation-individuation process. (Author/EV)