A Therapist's Creativity Unifies a Fractured Group of Inner City Boys [PsychoTherapyNetworker.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/9/174:00 AM

With some trepidation I approached Room G, where I’d been instructed to report for my first day as a family therapist at the Solomon School for Boys in a suburb of Philadelphia. As I cautiously opened the door, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the eight boys I was to meet with had already assembled, sitting on metal chairs in a circle, with an empty one apparently reserved for me.

But as I looked more closely, I saw that the kids appeared eerily detached from each other. They also seemed completely indifferent to my presence as I walked toward my chair. One kid, who later identified himself as Darryl, glanced up and mumbled, “Yo, you the doctor?” There was no other indication that I’d even entered the room.

[For more of this story, written by Ken Hardy, go to https://www.psychotherapynetwo.../1269/the-final-shot]

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