A GROUP THERAPY AND PSYCHODRAMA APPROACH WITH ADOLESCENT DRUG ADDICTS

Abstract

''There is something missing in me and I don't know what it is. Maybe I'll be a junky the rest of my life."** "Even if you're trying to stay away from the stuff, you have a hard time turning down a buddy if he offers you a fix. After all, he's doing it to show his friendship. You can't turn a friend down." "You never tell your mother you're using drugs, even though you know she knows it. It would be defying her and destroy her confidence in you." These statements made by the adolescent drug addicts with whom this report deals, serve to introduce the reader to some of the many problems confronting the therapist (individual or group)who is engaged in the treatment of this group of patientst