IJSP Number 1, 2019

56 2. CASE STUDY The client whose life story I decided to study and analyze in this paper is A.G.F. and is 17 years old. She is enlisted in the 2016-2017 school year in the tenth grade (sophomore year) vocational study at the Technical College “Ion I. C. Brătianu”, Timisoara; with the specialization of Manufacturing of Textile Products. The first two years of high school, A.G.F. had different colleagues because she attended the day courses of the same educational unit, with the profile of Services and the specialization of Technician in Administration. I mentioned these facts because they represent, in my opinion, a very important detail, A.G.F. being forced to quit the day courses because of the traumatic event she suffered during the last school year. The event caused her to miss school a lot, therefore she was unable to obtain all the grades she needed in order to graduate the tenth grade, finding herself in the position to repeat the year or even quit school entirely. By transferring from the day course to the vocational study, A.G.F. was not forced to come to school daily. Vocational study is divided as follows: two days of study at school and three days of practice at economic agents. Because of this, the girl was also able to take a part-time job and to financially support herself. A.G.F. comes from a family in which her parents got divorced when she was 10. After the divorce she stayed with her mother in the village of Giroc, in the same house they lived together until then. Her father moved into his parents’ house in the village of Cenei where he continues to reside. Her parents’ divorce had a strong emotional impact on the girl resulting in her distancing from both of her parents, but especially from her father whom she considered the main culprit of the separation. After her parents’ divorce A.G.F. sought support in the young people of her age, coming in contact with other children she met at the school she attended. Most of these children were seen as “problem children”, children with obvious behavioral problems. Some of them were older than her and some of the same age and the group was made up of both boys and girls. A.G.F. told me that she felt that only they understood her and that only through them she could find a place and a meaning for her. Along with this group she started skipping school, smoking cigarettes and occasionally drinking alcohol. During several weekends she attended all sort of parties where large quantities of alcohol were being consumed. Her mother tried to stop her, to forbid her to spend a lot of time with them, but in order for her to meet them, she would often run away from home. There were several occasions in which she would not return home to sleep, but rather stay at one of her friends from this group. A.G.F. told me that her mother stopped showing any interest in her, in her schooling and in the people she