Would you follow procedures to the letter if it meant cutting short a young person who was desperate to talk about a problem? A youth worker relates what happened when he found himself in a highly vulnerable situation.
As a youth worker I discovered that the father of one of the young people in the group was diagnosed with cancer and given a 50 per cent chance of survival. The family received counselling and help but the son, aged 13, refused to talk to anybody about it. I made myself available and approached him on several occasions to see if I could help.
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