weeks during which time a noticeable improvement in behavior and resolution of several problems was noted. Martin still has ongoing problems which he needs to learn to resolve. However, the process helped him enough through his crisis period that it has some value, and helped in bolstering his self-confidence and sense of self-worth, assisted in his consideration of others, and curbed to a degree his aggravating others and easily angered problems. Martin learned to calm himself down by self-talk. He learned to feel better about himself in spite of many mistakes. He demonstrated a capacity to be empathetic and supportive when people had difficulties, to smile at others, or give verbal compliments when they did well. He wanted to participate in more groups and activities.

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ELLIS A., & BERNARD, ME. (Eds.) (1983), Rational - emotive approaches to the problems of childhood, New York: Plenum.

GOTTMAN, J., GONSO, J., RASMUSSEN, B. (1975), Social interaction, social competence and friendship in children. Child Development, 46, 709-718.

MASLOW, A. H. (1962), Toward a psychology of being. Princeton, N. J.: Van Nostrand.

PAZARATZ, D. (1993), The nature of the communative relationship within a residential milieu. Journal of Child and Youth Care, 8 (3), 51-58.

STARK, K. (1990), Childhood depression: School-based intervention, New York: Guilford.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:

Dan Hanewich worked as a Child and Youth Care Worker at Haydon Youth Services, Oshawa, ON, 1986-1999. His interest was in simplifying strategic interventions to minimize the negative aspect of confrontation and to maximize the positive potential found within each youth, person, and living thing. Dan is a caring philanthropist as well as a passionate, social freedoms environmentalist, and a human and animal rights activist.
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