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Group interventions in schools

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Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy

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As part of the University of South Carolina's Institute for Families in Society, clinicians and graduate students are based in various schools throughout South Carolina delivering mental health services. These clinicians and graduate studients (N=37) were surveyed regarding the use of group interventions in their respective schools. Their responses to the survey questions provide the basis for this monograph which summarizes 95 selected recent references about group interventions in school. The monograph is designed to offer technical assistance in the form of information to clinicians and graduate students with ongoing group interventions, and assist them in developing new groups in school settings.

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 29208, Columbia, South Carolina

    George R. Holmes & Lyn T. Sprenkle

  2. University of South Carolina Institute for Families in Society, 29208, Columbia, South Carolina

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Holmes, G.R., Sprenkle, L.T. Group interventions in schools. J Child Adolesc Group Ther 6, 203–223 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548417

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