[Psychotherapy for children. Theoretical and practical approach].

Abstract

The vicissitudes of institutional outpatient child psychiatry and the lessening of psychotherapeutic work due to the great amount of patients are described. It is mentioned how adolescents have been treated in groups and individually, and how family therapy was introduced. Play therapy has not been used due to the described time limitations. The handling of the environment surrounding the child is described, with basis on behavioral schemata; when the case requires it is focused psychoanalytically, in order to produce long-standing intrapsychic changes. It is remarkable how well adolescents accept group therapy, which helps their formation during the life stage they are going through.