Psychosocial group prevention and intervention programs for children and adolescents.

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am

Center for Psychological Services, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 139 Temple Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA.

Published: April 2004

Psychosocial group interventions provide a potent venue for promoting children's social competencies, self-regulation, and problem solving in a natural peer group context. Three exemplary prevention and intervention group programs were described that are empirically supported, theoretically rich, and flexible for application in residential care settings. Special considerations are offered for designing and implementing groups with this population.

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