ABSTRACT
Whenever a social worker intervenes in the life of a family which includes a child or children, there is a story behind the intervention. The social worker needs to know that story and its effect on each child and to live through the experience with the child as fully as possible, without denying the pain, and accepting the sadness, anger, and depression that the situation gives rise to. The freedom that social workers have to use themselves in the situations will depend on each one's capacity to identify with others and to imaginatively encompass the experience of their clients in any given situation. In order to develop into a whole human being, each child needs to be recognized and known as a person in his own right, with his own particular ways of thinking and feeling and expressing himself and with his own special thing to say, which distinguishes him from everyone else.
