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''-.qqli!1lit]',!@!wa*ttsji*-4 The child wishes to be helped, but is not articulate enough to express his problem. His basic honesty is only thinly covered by defense mechanisms and he uses methods other than talk to show the worker his problem. The intern trys to provide media for the child to talk to hirn-u73[sr paints, clay, blackboard and chalk, dolls, or playhouses help the intern to see the problem facing the child and to begin treatment of the child and of his family. lt is usually two years before the child's problem has been solved, but the intern who treats him stays only a year. Reassignment of the child to another intern or referring him to an- other agency usually solves this problem which the gap between training and treatment creates. The ln- tern Program thus treats and trains at the same time, benefiting both student and community. The chil- dren in these photos are models. 180 -