Brief-term Group Psychotherapy with Late Adolescents

Abstract

Using the White Paper for Higher Education as released by the National Department of Education (1997) as a reference point, this paper explores the implications for psychologists working with late adolescents at a university counselling service. The author argues that students are in a developmental phase which is particularly receptive to group interventions and uses developmental theory and psychodynamic principles to support the suggestion that brief-term group psychotherapy is an appropriate intervention for late adolescents.