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Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents

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Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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Abstract

“I’m scared. My dream scared me.”

“Tell us about it and stay in the present tense—like ‘I am …’ “

“I am driving a huge truck that weighs 30,950 tons. The whole back end is an atomic bomb. I have to drive it into a mountain. The mountain is like a cone, like a fish-head. It can open up and swallow even the Empire State Building. So I drive my truck into it. Then I jump out just in time, and it is swallowed up in the mountain, and it blows the whole mountain all to pieces.”

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  2. Youth and Outpatient Services Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, University Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Kraft, I.A. (1980). Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents. In: Sholevar, G.P., Benson, R.M., Blinder, B.J. (eds) Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6684-3_9

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