A primary concern for counselors and therapists is safety. How safe are these novels where an adolescent, who may be in a compromised emotional state, embarks upon the therapeutic process alone?
This is a very interesting question and one that all clinicians will be aware of. My answer to this is, that, yes, safety is of the utmost concern, but the reality is that the people who slip through the net and commit suicide have no safety. The majority of the young people in my PhD research hid their pain. They never told anyone how they felt, and so when they were assessed for suicidal intention, they weren’t identified as being at risk and later killed themselves in their prison cells. The whole point of the “I Only Said” series of therapeutic novels is to provide a safe place for the reader to latch onto – a safe literary haven. How many people use books to escape into from everyday troubles? The “I Only Said” books offer a safe-haven where the nurturing from Miss Tina, Miss Cassie and Ken provides a mental image in teenagers’ minds, somewhere very different to the situations they may face everyday. The readers quickly become attached to these three main adult characters, which i
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