ABSTRACT
The use of evaluation in groups with children and adolescents is a topic that elicits a number of reactions from group clinicians. Often, they consider formal evaluation to be counter to the “art” of psychotherapy. Child and adolescent clinicians, who are arguably more likely to use less traditional modalities of therapy, are often averse to evaluation out of fear of their work being misrepresented or misunderstood. It is the goal of this chapter to cast the use of evaluation and particular ways of employing the resulting data, referred to as Practice-Based Evidence , in a new light. The basic premise and perspective of the chapter is that the art and the science of group therapy with youth can go hand in hand.
