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An adolescent mutation has proliferated since the late 1960s who has been immune to traditional therapeutic and educational approaches. It takes a new breed of group leader to work with this difficult-to-treat youth, who either self-medicates abusing psychoactive substances and/or takes prescribed and potent psychotropic medication. Innovative and humanistic treatment techniques are needed to convince an unconvinced youth to use, rather than abuse, superior intellectual and artistic abilities.
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Bratter, T.E. Confrontation Group Psychotherapy with Gifted, Dually Diagnosed, and Self-Destructive Adolescents in a Residential Setting. Group 27, 131–146 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025106307945
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