Helping Teens Handle Tough Experiences: Strategies to Foster Resilience

by Jill R. Nelson, Sarah Kjos

Overview

Educators, mentors, congregational leaders, counselors, and other youth-serving professionals will find the tools they need to help young people with personal, familial, social, or cultural adversities in this resource. Specific crises are addressed, including youths who physically harm themselves, parents who are chemically dependent, abusive dating relationships, depression, and homelessness—and solutions are offered for managing them. With reproducible handouts, examples of real-life situations, and ideas and topics for group discussion, this strength-based approach to working with youths empowers them to avoid becoming paralyzed by obstacles and instead face life with confidence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574822489
Publisher:	Search Institute Press
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jill R. Nelson, PhD, is an assistant professor and clinical program coordinator for the counselor education program at North Dakota State University. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota. Sarah Kjos, MEd, is a counselor at Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead. She lives in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

This is a book for teachers, parents, youth workers, counselors, and religious leaders who work with teenagers. Designed to help the adults help the teens who have to deal with some of the overwhelming problems of young adults today, it acknowledges that there are no easy answers but offers suggestions and practical advice. Twenty critical issues teens face are highlighted and these include addiction, pregnancy, gangs, domestic violence, eating disorders, homelessness, sexual abuse, foster care and dating violence, among others. Chapters have an overview of the issue followed by advice about what the teacher or youth worker can do to help. Resources such as websites, articles, and books that teens can read to help them with their problems are also part of each chapter. Also included with the book is a CD-ROM, which contains all of the handouts that are in the book. Written with clarity and offering numerous non-judgmental suggestions about how to help teens, this book should prove to be a valuable resource for anyone who works with young people today. Reviewer: Lesley Moore Vossen

Children's Literature - Lesley Moore Vossen