“This was a major step on the road to unravelling the tangle of dark thoughts and memories in his young head and would, I knew, be an important part of the process we started when he came to us. It also seemed a sensible idea to unravel things, literally. To sit down and make a chart of his life, in date order, so he could look back with clarity at what had gone before. He’s always been quite vague about where he’d been and when, which wasn’t surprising, given the number of placements he’d been ...through, which also meant he would often get confused about dates and names. It was a Saturday afternoon, and we had the house to ourselves, while Kieron and Mike were at football, so I suggested Justin bring down his memory box and that we start creating a personal timeline for him. ‘Like you might have done at primary school,’ I said, thinking back to find a good analogy. ‘Do you remember those ones they do in class on a long, long strip of paper, to explain how the earth was made?MoreLessRead More Read Less
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