Describes a program of group counseling for parents to help them minimize emotional reactions to hospitalization and surgery for their children. (DP)

Discusses timing of caseload assignment when field work of child welfare graduate students is interrupted by extensive vacations. (Author/CS)

Describes an experimental group program developed to orient and educate parents of children accepted for diagnostic evaluation in a child guidance clinic. Results of the program indicate effectiveness in enhancing parental awareness of problems and the parent role as treatment participants. (Author/CS)

The group therapy techniques described were designed on a behavior-contracting model and combine activities and verbal communication in a program to control behavior and enhance personal relationships. (ST)

Describes a group study method developed by a private adoption agency for couples interested in adopting children with special needs. The program includes group meetings, self-study homework, movies, slides, tapes, and extensive follow-up. (ED)

This book review describes a comprehensive resource book on a variety of approaches to groupwork in the secondary school. (GO)

Describes a preventive and supportive program, providing services to children in their own homes, which uses groupwork techniques to promote the social adjustment and development of children and youth from a black ghetto, while also providing intensive supportive services to the children's families. (JH)

Describes the development of a groupwork program in an agency that had provided treatment through casework alone. (Author/SB)

Discusses the telling of personal stories of sexual abuse within the context of trauma-focused group therapy for early adolescent girls. Examines the general benefits of group therapy for adolescents and describes the trauma-focused structured group therapy model. (MDM)

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…

Summarizes the design and effects of a group therapy project using videotape feedback with seriously disturbed adolescents. Offers anecdotal evidence that the feedback facilitated the correction of the participants' distorted body images, low self-esteem, lack of capacity for self-observation, and poor peer relationships. (SS)

Tested the hypothesis that placement stability for foster children would improve if they received help in resolving separation conflicts with their biological families from a group treatment program under the leadership of the child's caseworker. Important lacks in agency practice were revealed. (BB)