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This paper presents an overview of Solutions Unlimited Now—SUN(sm) and results of an Outcome Study by an Outside Evaluator. It describes the overall conceptual framework of social interaction, Social Capital, which underlies the rationale for and development of the structured group as a means for bringing about both individual and social assets and protective factors for teens, pre-teens and their families. The strategy of combining a psychodynamic approach which promotes the establishment of group norms that are caring, supportive, safe and empathic with the development of cognitive skills in problem solving and coping is shown to be effective.
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Tellerman, J.S. The Solutions Unlimited Now—SUN(sm) Program: Psychodynamic/Cognitive Structured Groups for Teens, Pre-Teens, and Families. Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy 11, 117–134 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014758406520
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