Sentences with phrase «mistrusting adults»

Students whose development is disrupted often walk through the doors of our schools mistrusting adults.

Just like Natalie, children and adolescents may come to school mistrusting adults if throughout their development they were lacking emotional attachments with caregivers.

One of the crucial skills he's developed over the years is learning how to gain the trust of a child who has every reason to fear and mistrust adults.

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Many children and adolescents come to school with a deep mistrust of adults because they've never formed healthy attachments.

«But even beyond those kinds of challenges, there is this growing mistrust that young people have for adults at that age.

Her early experiences of terror and persecution had continued to torment her as an adult in the form of depression and claustrophobia, but they also informed her concern for the disempowered, her mistrust of nationalism, and her fierce criticisms of war and environmental destruction.

He speaks of his mistrust of the adult world and, in the process, also reveals his blatantly duplicitous means of surviving adolescence — on his own terms.

Clients who are discharged because of behaviour may perceive that they have been kicked out and may express their grief and anger in their mistrust of the adults in their next placement (Meeks, 1971).

«Because there's this mistrust that starts early on, people continue to have that mistrust of others in their adult life,» he says.

Sometimes childhood experiences continue to impact us as adults, leaving us with mistrust, dysfunctional relationships, shame or poor self - acceptance.