100120: Project Eagle: Techniques For Multi-Family Psycho-Educational Group Therapy With Gifted American Indian Adolescents and Their Parents

About the Course:

This article describes a model short-term psycho-educational approach to therapy with gifted American Indian Adolescents and their parents. Descriptions of program organization and culturally relevant interventions are included. Qualitative analysis provides additional information regarding the program’s impact upon participants.

Author

Rockey Robbins, Ph.D., Stuart Tonemah, M.Ed., and Sharla Robbins, Ph.D.

Course Objectives:

1. To become familiar with a culturally-based psycho-educational group model.

2. To learn how to use the program presented as a model for other culturally-based programs.

3. To identify the strengths of a program such as Project Eagle and understand how it positively influenced many young people and parents.