Child and Adolescent Counseling

Child & Adolescent Psychology

Golden, L.B. (2002). Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Counseling

Sean

Sean's early life was exceptionally fragmented, leaving him with substantive levels of abandonment and fears regarding his well-being. The life his family led before he went to live with his grandmother was not ordered or structured. Sean did not develop the ability to make predictions about what happens in life, in games, and in the behavior of others because this area was essentially a void in his young life. Because he did not have a normal background against which to compare his life events, it was difficult for Sean to identify that he was angry with his mother for her neglect, disappointed in his father for his harshness, or devastated by the death of his grandmother.

Sean was not able to articulate the feelings he was experiencing nor was he able...
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