No Time For Lunch: Memoirs Of An Inner City Psychologist

by Blumberg, Thelma

• ISBN13: 9781932687095
• ISBN10: 1932687092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Simcha Media Group

Summary

Thelma Blumberg has seen it all: children with elective mutism, children physically abused, children on drugs, children who create fear in others and children who live their lives in fear.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(2)
PHASE ONE: Life Prepares Me	11	(30)
Kiryat Arba	13	(4)
They Called Me ``Rainface''	17	(6)
New York City	23	(8)
Michael	31	(10)
PHASE TWO: Agonies and Ecstasies	41
Brief Encounters Cement the Path	43	(6)
Internship in Jerusalem	49	(6)
Hired Under the Wire	55	(4)
The Boy Who Wanted to Sweep the Hall	59	(6)
And the Teacher Moaned, ``I'd Rather Be Scrubbing Floors!''	65	(6)
Charmed By Baltimore's Neighborhoods and People	71	(6)
Helping Teachers and Kids Like Each Other	77	(6)
I Learn Some Magic	83	(6)
A New Beginning	89	(4)
Jumping the Hurdles	93	(6)
Things Go Topsy Turvy for the Psychologists	99	(6)
All Good Things	105	(4)
Bullied Again: I Learn the Ropes	109	(6)
Surprising New Clients	115	(6)
My Hidden Agenda: the Parents	121	(6)
Remarkable Partners	127	(6)
The Miracle, the Children	133