“kids in stress create in us their feelings, and if we are not trained to this process, we (the adult) will mirror their behaviors.”20 Long also argues that when a student is stressed, his or her emotions will also reflect in the adult. If the adult is not trained to accept their own counter-aggressive feelings, the adult will act on them, in effect mirroring the student’s behavior. He offers several reasons that adults become counter aggressive with the young people they serve.
