Working with Troubled Children and Teenagers

Working with Troubled Children and Teenagers

Author: Jonny Matthew

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2018-05-21

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1784507520

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Working with Troubled Children and Teenagers is an easy to understand guide packed with wisdom for anyone working with or caring for troubled children and teens. Author Jonny Matthew has decades of experience of working with young people, and offers simple but hard-won advice about how to earn the trust and respect of even the most challenging young people. It all starts with you, the adult, adopting a position of respect and patience. It's only then that children and young people will start to respond. From this starting point, Jonny provides a wealth of practical advice across a wide range of challenging topics - from the use of touch and understanding boundaries through to repairing relationships when things break down. Jonny uses case examples and stories throughout to bring his advice to life. This inspiring book is essential reading for any adult invested in improving the lives of troubled children, including youth workers, social workers, foster carers and child counsellors.


Counseling the Defiant Child

Counseling the Defiant Child

Author: John B. Mordock

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780765702609

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This book focuses on counseling latency-aged children, with emphasis on the defiant and aggressive child. It addresses the specific training needs of those counseling these children and includes discussion of the developmental failures of many of the children sent for counseling, and a framework of the normal period of development called latency.


Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

Author: Liana Lowenstein

Publisher: Champion Press (Canada)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780968519905

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This best-selling collection is filled with creative assessment and treatment interventions to help clients identify feelings, learn coping strategies, enhance social skills, and elevate self-esteem. A wealth of innovative tools for practitioners working with children in individual, group, and family counselling. Aimed at 4 to 16 year olds.


Helping Your Troubled Teen

Helping Your Troubled Teen

Author: Cynthia S Kaplan

Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Published: 2007-07-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1616734272

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The first "adolescent primer" on the market Destructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self mutilation (ie: cutting and burning), and eating disorders. These will be covered in detail, along with other issues like Internet addiction and suicide. These problems are not only detrimental to teens' mental and physical health, but the legal consequences for injurious behavior have also changed. Identification and prevention are the most important aspects in stopping teenage self-destructive behavior. This book offers a comprehensive look at teens self destructive behavior and gives parents solutions for dealing with it. Helping Your Troubled Teen instructs parents on how to identify an at-risk adolescent and discuss warning signs of injurious behavior, before the problem(s) become severe enough that a child is in crisis and/or legal actions are taken against them. Personal anecdotes and testimonials from both parents and their teenagers who have been confronted with and have engaged in self-destructive behavior are also included. McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric teaching facility of Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1811 as the original psychiatric department of the MGH, it moved to Belmont in 1895. McLean Hospital operates the largest psychiatric neuroscience research program of any Harvard University-affiliated facility and of any private psychiatric hospital in the country. The Child and Adolescent Program at McLean Hospital is one of the foremost clinical programs for helping young people and their families cope with psychiatric illness and the challenges it often brings. There are extensive ties with community services, and each therapeutic program of children and adolescents in inpatient, residential and outpatient services is tailored to the specific needs of the child and family.


Raising Troubled Kids

Raising Troubled Kids

Author: Margaret Puckette

Publisher:

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781419693427

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For parents and family members who live with a troubled child orteen, this is a fact-filled and practical guide for achievingstability and well-being by managing daily life in a stressfulhome.


Troubled Children and Youth

Troubled Children and Youth

Author: Larry K. Brendtro

Publisher: Research Press (IL)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Clinicians, educators, mentors, and youth professionals are presented with research-based strategies that will help improve their relationships with youth, including those who have been ignored, discarded, and branded as incorrigible. While opening the door to a positive, strength-based approach to helping youth, the book reinforces a vital principle that tribal communities have embraced for centuries - every child is precious, and even those who are lost and marginalized can and should be reclaimed by society. The authors elaborate on the four guiding principles of the Circle of Courage model of positive youth development: Belonging, Mastery, Independence, and Generosity.


No Such Thing as a Bad Kid

No Such Thing as a Bad Kid

Author: Charles D. Appelstein

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Written specifically for child- and youth-care professionals, teachers, and foster parents, No Such Thing As a Bad Kid is packed with information for anyone who lives or works with kids at risk. Based on the premise that misbehavior is a coded message, this empowering handbook guides you through the decoding process and, via hundreds of hands-on tips and sample dialogues, into approaches capable of revolutionizing your interactions with troubled children and their interactions with the world. Even parents of children not at risk will benefit from this book.


Hope for Parents of Troubled Teens

Hope for Parents of Troubled Teens

Author: Connie LMHC Rae

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 144127006X

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A Road Map for Parenting in the Troubled Years It is never too late for parents to reach their teenager or young adult. Licensed counselor Connie Rae draws from professional and personal experience to provide insight, encouragement, and advice. Offering wise counsel and a reassuring tone, she helps parents better understand their child's temperament, their own parenting style, and the developmental process their child is going through. She also discusses the world in which their teenager is growing up, which is very different than many parents realize. Each chapter ends with a list of practical steps and a prayer, giving parents wise advice but also offering hope through the process.


Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs

Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs

Author: Michael Ungar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317626710

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Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs provides a detailed description of techniques and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, and child and youth care workers can help young people become more resilient. With ample case studies and fascinating explanations of research, Dr. Ungar shows why we need to work just as hard changing the environments that surround children as we do changing children themselves. Building on lessons learned from clinical, community and residential settings, Dr. Ungar discusses 20 skills that can enhance the effectiveness of frontline mental health services. Along with descriptions of the skills necessary to talk with clients about the factors that put their mental health at risk, Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs also presents systemic practices clinicians can use in their everyday work. Engaging with children’s extended family, addressing issues of community violence, racism and homophobia, and helping parents and teachers understand children’s maladaptive coping strategies as sometimes necessary are among the many practical strategies that are discussed which clinicians can use to enhance and sustain the therapeutic value of their work.