Since therapy cannot be effective without a supportive home environment and parental cooperation, the counselor must decide whether or not the child belongs in the home. If the child continues in a victimizing environment, therapy has little chance of modifying the child's behavior and mental state. The counselor must also make clear to the child that although certain destructive behaviors stem from victimization experiences, destructive behavior will not be permitted and must carry adverse consequences for the child. Counselors must also deal with their own reactions to the characteristics of the child's world, such as the lucrative earnings of the child prostitute and the sexual freedom of the prostitute's world. The counselor must recognize that the apparent enviable benefits of the child's world mask an internal world of emotional pain. The counselor also must address the child's expectations of the counselor which reflect what adults have rendered the child in the past, i.e., abuse, exploitation, seduction, and instability. The child will attempt to make the counselor fit these expectations, so the counselor must be prepared to maintain the therapeutic role to teach the child how to respond to a nonexploitative and caring adult.