TREATING THE WHOLE CHILD, NOT JUST SYMPTOMS,

It has become popular to focus solely on symptoms in the treatment of children, but to do so can limit the effectiveness of the intervention and may lead to failure. This in-depth article explains the interactional nature of the mind, body and spirit of children and...

THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD OF THE TRAUMATIZED CHILD

The optimal way to help a troubled child is to first understand what the child is thinking and feeling, you know all you want to know about how they are acting. But how is an adult, who is familiar with common sense and logical thinking, supposed to understand the...

WHAT TROUBLED YOUNG PEOPLE CAN TEACH YOU

If your goal is to have a great deal of learning going on when you work with a difficult child, there is only one guaranteed way to ensure this—you need to learn all you can. But isn’t that backwards, since the child is supposed to be doing the learning? Not...