Crossing the line
By: Dianne Bates
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ormond, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781876462703
Subjects: Teenage girls; Juvenile fiction; Depression in adolescence; Self-mutilation; Friendship in adolescence; Women psychiatrists; Therapist and patient; Orphans; Fiction; Mental Depression; Friendship; Foster home care; Psychotherapists; Adolescentes; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Dépression chez l'adolescent; Automutilation; Amitié chez l'adolescent; Femmes psychiatres; Relations thérapeutiques; Depression (Psychology); Psychotherapy; Therapist-patient relationship
Description: Orphaned, then abandoned by long-term foster carers, teenager Sophie lives with Amy and Matt. For a long time and unknown to others, Sophie has been self-mutilating: more recently she has been in therapy. Concerned about Sophie's increasing depression, the doctor admits her to a hospital. There Sophie is placed in an adolescent ward where she forms tentative relationships with other troubled teenagers and begins sessions with psychiatrist, Helen Marshall. However, the doctor crosses the patient-therapist line, but so too does Sophie.
Notes: For children.