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Article: Conversations with young people in rural and remote places: transforming the emerging self (ANZAP 16th Annual Conference "Trauma and the transformational conversation").
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Working with young people can be like working with an echo--an echo of our own youth and sometimes the stereo echo of the youth of our own children if we have been parents of adolescents. These echoes can inform us, mislead us, motivate us, and tempt us to become parents to our clients rather than therapists. This paper describes the laying of a foundation for transformation of the inner world of a young person through the use of the Conversational Model. I describe some of the background of the young people I am working with and the gradual transformation of the emerging self of one young client through the use of the Conversational Model with its relational qualities of ...