resolve crises with little or no training. You learn as you go and become wiser with experience. And rarely do children experiencing crises—moves, school changes, death, divorce, abuse, handicaps, or hospitalization—receive immediate clinical intervention specifically designed to help them. They are helped (or not helped) by the adults in their daily lives. This network of helpers is often more powerful than any therapist could hope to be, but sometimes adults in a child’s life do not know how to