Working with Runaways and Their Families: How the SAJA Community Does it |
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| Authors: | JAMES S. GORDON M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Research Psychiatrist, Center for Studies of Child and Family Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland. |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents an account of the development, philosophy, and delivery of a particular kind of human service: counseling with runaways and their families that is based in a Runaway House. It attempts to show some of the relationships between the work of effective counseling, the set of the counselors (almost all paraprofessionals), and the setting in which counseling takes place (a weekly "Family Seminar" that serves a Runaway House functioning as one collective in a community of social service projects, Special Approaches to Juvenile Assistance [SAJA]). |
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