Building Healthy Minds

Margot Prior

“Jane is a 13-year-old girl whose father brought her along to a children’s clinic to see a psychologist for help with the many problems she was having. At home she was difficult to live with, with frequent outbursts of anger and misery, and refusal to cooperate with family routines. At school she was not getting on with the other children, had trouble concentrating and finishing her schoolwork, and felt sad, lonely and misunderstood much of the time. Her teacher described Jane as a lovely girl who was usually not hard to get along with, but who seemed preoccupied with worries and was struggling to manage all the demands of the classroom as well as the playground …”