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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 18 Oct 2007
Time: 14:12:52 -0500
Remote Name: 134.29.31.204
[[". . . I used to believe that I could overcome the lack of parent involvement when working with a younger child, or even a teenager. And sometimes that is possible to a degree. But having parents (as as many others as possible) involved is often critical, especially for long-term change. . . "]] >>> Hello, Walt. I appreciate your candid disclosure about your experience as a clinician working with children when parents/caregivers were intimately involved in treatment services and when they were not. I wonder, if like me, you sometimes considered post-poning or even refusing to offer therapy to a child (preschool, school-age, teen) because it was most likely there would be no committed, on-going parent/caregiver involvement. Ellen-Marie Silverman