Steve B. Parese, Steve B. Parese
Children and youth from chronically stressful living environments bring many hidden problems to school. Those who have experienced parental neglect, abuse, loss, or abandonment often hold tightly to a paradoxical powder keg of feelings, which may ignite when growing affection for staff competes with misplaced loyalty to the absent parent. This article describes a Life Space Crisis Intervention of one such event, drawn from the author's year-long qualitative study on the development of mentor relationships between troubled youth and their teachers.
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