Posts tagged with: Supporting Teens
Defense mechanisms take all forms in teenagers; sometimes they masquerade, ironically, as the obvious. I taught one girl several years ago at Taft, a hockey player, who, upon entering the class for the first time, announced loudly in front of...
In J.D. Salinger’s canonical work, The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield comes to regard himself as rescuer of lost children, explained in the metaphor of catching children in a field of rye before they fall over a cliff: I...