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This paper focuses on the need by late adolescents in long-term out-of-home placement to have mental health interventions, such as a time-limited, theme-focused group experience as they make the transition to an independent living status. The authors compare and contrast their experience with two such groups, through a discussion of the positive and negative events that occurred in each group. There is a strong endorsement to continue group interventions as a prevention technique for adolescents making the transition from long-term out-of-home placement to independent living.
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Holmes, G.R., Wright, H.H., Ott, D.A. et al. Group therapy interventions with late adolescents transitioning out of a long-term residential setting. J Child Adolesc Group Ther 6, 135–146 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548492
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