This excellent resource provides a variety of perspectives on and solutions to STS including views
expressed by foster parents and supervisors, as well as strategies to prevent and address STS at the invididual and organizational level.
The nonhierarchical, egalitarian style of psychosynthesis is
expressed in Assagioli's view that having a therapist, although an advantage, is not essential: «Psychosynthesis can be applied
by the individual himself or herself,
fostering and accelerating inner growth and self - actualization..., Such self - psychosynthesis should be practiced...
by every therapist, social worker, and educator (including
parents).»
Tattling was always a pet peeve of mine and, whenver one of mine would come to me witha complaint that someone had hit, or grabbed, etc., I learned to say, «What happened just before he / she hit, grabbed, etc.» I believe anything
parents can do to
foster a positive self - image (that means private, not public, discipline, even if it means a quick walk to a restroom or back to the car), and to encourage mutual respect (allowing a child to
express how he / she feels about the discipline being meted out
by the
parent, and giving an age - appropriate child a say - so in the discipline) will not only benefit the child, but will benefit all those who encounter that child during his / her lifetime.