Fostering the sense of self: Group psychotherapy for girls in early adolescence

Bardwick, J.M., Douvan, E., Horner, M.S., & Gutman, D., (Eds.), (1970).Feminine Personality and Conflict, Ann Arbor: Brooks/Cole Publishing.

Belenky, M.F., Clinchy, B.M., Goldberger, N.R., & Tarule, J.M. (Eds.), (1986).Women's Ways of Knowing, New York: Basic Books.

Berenson, J.F. (1990). Gender differences in social networks.Journal of Early Adolescence, 10, 472–495.

Berkovitz, I.H. (1975),When Schools Care, N.Y.: Brunner/Mazel.

Berkovitz, I.H., & Seliger, J.S. (Eds.), (1985),Expanding Mental Health Interventions in Schools. Vol. I, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendell Hunt Publishing.

Berkovitz, I.H. (1989). Application of group therapy in secondary schools. In F. J. C. Azima & L. H. Richmond, (Eds.),Adolescent Group Psychotherapy (pp. 99–124). American Group Psychotherapy Association Monograph Series, Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Blatt, S.J., & Blass, R.B. (1990). Attachment and separateness: A dialectic model of the products and processes of development throughout the life cycle.The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 45, 107–127.

Blos, P. (1970),The Young Adolescent: Clinical Studies, New York: The Free Press.

Blos, P. (1979).The Adolescent Passage. New York: International Universities Press.

Bracklmanns, W.E. & Berkovitz, I.H. (1972). Younger adolescents in group psychotherapy: A reparative superego experience. In I.H. Berkovitz, (Ed.),Adolescents Grow in Groups. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Brooks-Gunn, J. (1987). Pubertal processes and girls' psychological adaptation. In R.M. Learner & T.T. Foch, (Eds.),Biological-Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Chodorow, N. (1978).The Reproduction of Mothering, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Corder, B.T., Whiteside, R., & Vogel, M. (1977). A therapeutic game for structuring and facilitating group psychotherapy with adolescents.Adolescence, 46, 261–268.

Dalsimer, K. (1986).Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Dies, K.R. (1992). Leadership in adolescent psychotherapy groups: Strategies for effectiveness.Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy, 2, 142–160.

Emde, R.N. (1988). Development terminable and interminable.International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 69, 23–42. Cited in S.J. Blatt and R.B. Blass, (1990). Attachment and separateness: A dialectic model of the products and processes of development throughout the life cycle.Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 45, p. 111.

Gilligan, C. (1982).In a Different Voice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gilligan, C., Lyons, N.P., Hanmer, T.J. (1990).Making Connections, Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press.

Hamburg, B.A. (1974). Early adolescence: A specific and stressful stage of the life cycle. In G. V. Goelho, D. A. Hamburg & J. E. Adams, (Eds.),Coping and Adaptation (pp. 101–124). New York: Basic Books.

Kostoulas, K.K., Berkovitz, I.H., & Arima, H. (1991). School counseling groups and children of divorce: Loosening attachment to mother in adolescent girls.Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy, 1, 177–192.

Litvak, J.J. (1991). School based group psychotherapy with adolescents: Establishing an effective group program.Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy, 1, 167–176.

MacLennan, B.W. (1991). Group psychotherapy with girls in early adolescence: Then and now.Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy, 1, 25–42.

Mahler, M.S., Pine, F., & Bergman, A. (1975).The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant: Symbiosis and Individuation. New York: Basic Books.

Miller, J.B. (1984). “The development of women's sense of self.” Work in progress. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center for Developmental Service and Studies.

Miller, J.B. (1986). “What do we mean by relationships?” Work in Progress. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center for Developmental Service and Studies.

Miller, J.B. (1988). “Connections, disconnections and violations.” Work in Progress. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center for Developmental Service and Studies.

Parker, C. (1992). Clinical & literary representations of the preadolescent experience: The body as an object of desire & disgust, disillusion & illusion. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39). American Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Pasternak, J., & Barth, P. (1988). Adolescent Female Groups. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Group Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Pitcher, E.G. & Schultz, L.H. (1983).Boys and Girls at Play: The Development of Sex Roles. New York: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc.

Rubin, C. (1993). Personal communication.

Rubin, C., Rubenstein, J.L., Stechler, G., Hoeren, T., Halton, A., Housman, D., & Kasten, L. (1992). Depressive affect in “normal” adolescents: Relationship to life stress, family, and friends.American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 62, 430–441.

Savin-Williams, R.C., & Berndt, T.J. (1990). Friendship and peer relations. In S.S. Feldman & G.R. Ellot (Eds.),At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescent. (pp. 277–307). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Schave, D. & Schave, B. (1989).Early Adolescence and the Search for Self: A Developmental Perspective. New York: Praeger Publishers.

Schwartz, M.D. (1975). Situation/transition: A conceptualization and review.American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 45, 744–755.

Shechtman, Z. (1991). Small group therapy and preadolescent same-sex friendship.International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 41, 227–243.

Simmons, R.G., Burgeson, R., Carlton-Ford, S. & Blyth, D.A. (1987). The impact of cumulative change in early adolescence.Child Development, 58, 1220–1234.

Steinberg, L. (1990). Autonomy, conflict, and harmony in the family relationship. In S.S. Feldman & G.R. Elliot (Eds.),At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescent. (pp 255–276). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Stern, D.N. (1983). The early development of schemas of self, of other and of various experiences of “self with other.” In S. Lichtenberg & S. Kaplan, (Ed.),Reflections on Self Psychology, Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press. Cited in Blatt, S.J., & Blass, R.B. (1990). Attachment and separateness: A dialectic model of the products and processes of development throughout the life cycle.The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 45, p. 111.

Stern, L. (1990). Conceptions of separation and connection in female adolescents. In C. Cilligan, N.P. Lyons, & T.J. Hanmer, (Eds.),Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press.

Yalom, I.D. (1985).The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, New York: Basic Books.