Stability in Variability, about the Importance of the Setting in Group Therapy for Adolescents in a Psychiatry Ward

Authors: Kudła K*, Bogusz-Corkill A, Śmierciak N, Szwajca M, Matusiak F, Duda Cebula E, Szwajca K and Pilecki M

DOI: 10.23880/pprij-16000373

Volume 8, Issue 4

Abstract

In this article, we look at the role of the setting in group therapy for adolescents, exploring how the therapeutic environment influences the process of recovery and development of adolescents hospitalized in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Ward at the University Hospital in Krakow. The aim of the study was to examine how adolescents, particularly groups predominantly composed of girls, respond to the setting in group therapy and its impact on the healing process during hospitalization on a ward for adolescent patients. Three several-month-long periods of the group’s work conducted in 2021, 2022 and 2023 are analyzed. The basic principles of group work are discussed, both those introduced by the therapeutic team and ones proposed by adolescents and adopted by the group in the last few years. The rules that are most frequently broken or manipulated by adolescents are indicated.

Keywords: Keywords: Group Therapy; Hospitalization; Adolescence

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