Crossing the Line

• Author(s): Dianne Bates,
• Publisher: Ford Street Publishing
• Pages: 218
• ISBN_10: 1925000699
  ISBN_13: 9781925000696
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Juvenile Fiction / General , Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / General , Juvenile Fiction / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes , Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women , Juvenile Fiction / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries , Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Australia & Oceania , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / General , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Adolescence , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Self-Mutilation , Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance , Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / General , Juvenile Nonfiction / Family / General , Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance , Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Cutting & Self-Harm ,

Description:... Orphaned then abandoned by long-term foster carers, teenager Sophie lives with Amy and Matt. For a long time and unknown to others, Sophie has been self-mutilating: more recently she has been in therapy. Concerned about Sophie’s increasing depression, the doctor admits her to a hospital. There Sophie is placed in an adolescent ward where she forms tentative relationships with other troubled teenagers and begins sessions with psychiatrist, Helen Marshall. However, the doctor crosses the patient-therapist line, but so too does Sophie ...