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Relatively little has been written about the development of the adolescent girl who has been separated from her natural family and environment.1,2,3. In this chapter, we consider some observations of adolescent girls who have been placed in an environment away from their families in group homes. Our data are based on five years of observation in one such group home, as well as on our long-term clinical experience in working with adolescents, children, and families.
In point of fact, adolescence is life between a saddening farewell—i.e., to the self and the objects of the past— and a gradual, anxious-hopeful passing over many barriers through the gates which permit entrance to the, as yet unknown, country of adulthood.
Edith Jacobson, The Self and the Object World. Part III. Puberty and the Period of Adolescence, 1964
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Mathe, M., Rudes, N. (1982). The Adolescent Girl in a Group Home. In: Notman, M.T., Nadelson, C.C. (eds) The Woman Patient. Women in Context: Development and Stresses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4094-2_6
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