Abstract |
This article examines group therapy with children and adolescents impacted by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, with a focus on the role of metaphor, enactment, and the creative arts therapies in trauma treatment. Attention is given to the importance of fantasies, family structure, and culture in determining how the child constructs and processes the events. Examples are derived from ongoing, trauma-focused groups with traumatically bereaved children who lost parents, as well as from ongoing drama therapy groups in which traumatic themes emerged.
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Authors | Craig Haen |
Journal | International journal of group psychotherapy
(Int J Group Psychother)
Vol. 55
Issue 3
Pg. 391-414
(Jul 2005)
ISSN: 0020-7284 [Print] England |
PMID | 16175993
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Child
- Ego
- Fantasy
- Humans
- Psychotherapy, Group
(methods)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
(psychology)
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
(etiology, psychology, therapy)
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