Abstract
Separation is one of the key concepts during adolescence and it contains various emotions such as loss, grief, despair, enthusiasm and fear. For the adolescents in an inpatient mental health treatment setting, the discharge period means "separation from the unit" and it needs to be worked through. This paper introduces a separation group therapy application in Dokuz Eylul University Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit. The data is followed by a case vignette. Discharge period is challenging because it contains both leaving the positive experiences behind and returning back to the external world of problems. Therefore it is crucial to provide these patients with opportunities to work through separation and to support them with a group therapy application designed specifically to serve this aim.
Keywords: Separation, group therapy, adolescents, inpatient unit, discharge.
