Consider childhood as a place not a process. It is not a transition phase on the way to some place else.
Childhood is a young person's everyday reality.
Perhaps the times have changed, but the developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence have not. Perhaps Child Centred Practice and Empowerment are concepts we can usefully integrate into practice to ensure young people maintain or develop a sense of optimism and resilience, a sense of control in their lives. Perhaps these strategies will assist us to psychologically immunise children and young people against poor mental health. At Kids Help Line we believe this is so. The challenge for us, as for others, is to continue the process of review of practice to ensure our responses to young people meet their needs not ours.