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Small adolescent group as a transitional object

Introduction: Adolescence as a period for development has phase specific difficulties or conflicts of growing up, which is followed by occasional regressions and sudden needs to be «grown up». Adolescent psychotherapy groups require an adjustment of technique as a consequents of the aforementioned phase specifics. Methods: In our daily hospital a small group of adolescents is scheduled once a week during one semester of school year. We adjust group analyses in the adolescent groups. Border acting out occurs often in heterogenous adolescent groups, while appearing less frequently in the adult groups. Acting out is often present in the form of liveliness, airiness, tenseness, impulsivity, offensiveness, deprecation and rejection, which necessitates special leading techniques with all implications for the group dynamics. Conclusion: Psychotherapist of adolescent groups should possess a greater capacity for containing aggression, indirect communication and inertness to various provocations. As a result of such behaviour it could be said that the therapist is constantly being tested. If taken as a whole, the group and the therapist can be seen as a transitional object during growing up.

Adolescence ; group analysis ; small group ; transitional object

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