[Experiences with combined group psychotherapy in adolescents].

Adolescents in need of psychotherapy have, due to their defiant behaviour, little motivation to take part in group-centered psychotherapy although, since they are experiencing a crisis of identity, they are most in need of it. The tastes of this age group are catered for at the outset by the use of music typical of that popular among young people, arrangement of the group sessions to give the impression of a party and combining patient-centred treatment with communicative movement therapy. This is followed by training in social behaviour commensurate to the individual social situation and the deficits in the behavioural inventories of the different members of the group.