ABSTRACT
The little girl was having individual psychotherapy, and the parents had meetings with a different worker to discuss the child's care. An Individual therapy is very helpful to the child who has the "average expectable environment" that Donald Winracott described as the minimum requirement for normal development. The central issue in all these discussions about diagnosis and therapeutic recommendations lies in the decision of what exactly does the child need in order to overcome his difficulties and resume his normal development. The parents believe they help the child by voicing only words of comfort and encouragement, but the child often interprets this as a sign that the parents cannot cope with hearing of their fears. There is no intention to dismiss or belittle long-term therapy, of whatever kind; the intention, rather, is to argue that intensive and/or extensive therapies should be reserved for those children and adolescents who require them.
