Life Space Crisis Intervention: "He Gave Me the Finger!"

The Manipulation of Body Boundaries Set Up Reclaiming Intervention is used when a bright, passive-aggressive youth sets up a more volatile peer to fight and get into trouble. Analogies are especially useful in helping "set-up" students gain a cognitive understanding of how they are being manipulated. This article details a situation which highlights the cleverness of a person who is diagnosed as Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--a trait common in the youth who typically do the "setting up" of volatile youth.