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- Title
Method of Group Therapy for Parents.
- Authors
Sands, Rosalind M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the method of group therapy for parents developed by the Council Child Development Center. Child guidance clinics are often confronted with great difficulties — parental resistance to involvement in a treatment plan, outright rejection of treatment, or superficial participation when the need for more intensive help is indicated by the family study. With the necessity of understanding family inter-relationships in the treatment of children and with the goal of modifying the familial environment for the child, the center made available to parents facilities for treatment. However, in certain areas of family life and living experience, the staff members of the center often found such emotional blindness and unawareness of problems, with projection of responsibility for difficulties on to husband, wife and child, that treatment was resisted or rejected. It was found that parents could be brought together on the basis of their common situation, that is, they were mothers or fathers of children with problems. While they could not see their own limitations and failures, they could accept coming together in a group in order to learn how to understand better their children and their relationships with their children.
- Subjects
GROUP psychotherapy; PARENTS; CHILD guidance clinics; FAMILY relations; PARENT-child relationships; CHILD development
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p48
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article