ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the child-care worker with some specific ideas as about how to establish and use therapeutic "relationships." It considers how one goes about "establishing relationships" with maladjusted children, it seems mandatory to clarify by the global term. Such children seemingly cannot or will not allow the establishment of the "relationship" that seems essential for therapeutic change. All workers are pushed near their explosion point at times, and it takes considerable self- control, experience, and perhaps humor before the worker learns how to respond at the times. The worker can also talk to the child in a monologue, not expecting the child to answer, but from time to time giving him a chance to reopen communication. If the worker shows trust in the child, the child will be more inclined to trust the worker. Child-care workers have noted that their relationship with a particular youngster underwent a marked change after some crucial incident.
