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Strengths-Based Counseling With At-Risk Youth (Hardcover)
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Strengths-Based Counseling With At-Risk Youth (Hardcover)
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`An eye-opening and heart-opening book.' -Bonnie Benard, Senior
Program Associate, WestEd Identify and promote overlooked strengths
to cultivate resilience. Now more than ever, counselors, teachers,
community youth workers, and parents are striving to prevent
individual and school-wide tragedy before it happens. Critical to
the success of their efforts is a deep respect for the adolescent
experience. In this book, author and social worker Michael Ungar
takes a fresh, hopeful approach to challenging youth by looking
beyond the surface of "bad" behaviors to understand them as ways of
coping with life's adversities. Strengths-Based Counseling With
At-Risk Youth provides the tools both to understand and access
strengths buried beneath problem behaviors. It offers specific,
effective strategies in working with adolescents to construct
positive identities and realistic action plans. Features include
Six strategies for youth engagement, covering common problem
behaviors such as drug use, violence, delinquency, and promiscuity
An entire chapter on bullying An abundance of real-life examples
and counseling narratives A Resilient Youth Strengths Inventory to
assess resilience and identify areas that need strengthening
Sincere application of Ungar's compassionate and open-minded
strategies is sure to transform the lives of countless adolescents
in need, and the institutions that serve them.
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