Agency Finds Group Therapy Helpful With Single Mothers

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

The response of the Jewish
Family Service in Philadel-
phia to the national phenom-
enon of a steadily growing
number of Jewish single par-
ents, most of them women,
has been the development
since 1969 of 13 single
mothers' treatment groups in
the agency's four district
offices.
The decision to emphasize
,:tment through the, group
process, rather than by
individual counseling, has
emerged from evidence at
the agency that such treat-
ment has had substantial
success in helping such
women to cope with the
myriad problems of their
new status.
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ly either by desertion or
divorce, such women come
to the agency "overwhelmed
by feelings of isolation and
loneliness, sexual frustration,
hopelessness, anxiety, fear,
inadequacy, guilt, failure and
immobilizing anger," the
agency caseworkers reported
in the current issue of the
Journal of Jewish Communal
Service.

father."
Through the group process,
they began to realize that
their children were indivi-
duals in their own right and
"real growth was achieved
when several mothers chose
to allow the child's father to
share in his simha, the Bar
Mitzva."

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single mothers to negotiate
with their ex-husbands "and
help them claim privileges
for themselves and their
children that are rightfully
theirs."

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resentment of their husbands
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