ABSTRACT
Art therapy would seem to offer an excellent opportunity for interaction as children readily use materials except in rare cases where they are very withdrawn and inhibited and need special encouragement. Linesch quotes Blos who considers that group therapy is important for adolescents because it helps the adolescent to separate out projective components of their behaviour from objective facts. Linesch an American art therapist writes more positively about group work: She goes on to say that group therapy with adolescents is often difficult and draining for therapists and can even become counter therapeutic and destructive. Art therapists trained in group work could give much support to teaching staff, as well as to children, in schools and centres for care and treatment of children and adolescents. The art work in the adolescent group seemed to provide a safe container for many feelings.
