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by Larry Brendtro, Mary Shahbazian
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.
Full Description:
In Troubled Children and Youth: Turning Problems into Opportunities, clinicians, teachers, youth professionals, mentors, and parents are presented with research-based strategies that will help them 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.
Papercover, 6 x 9, 264 pages
PART I: Challenges
- Crisis and Courage
- Courage Builders
- Circles of Courage
- Disconnected Children
- Families on the Edge
- Conflict in School
- Trouble with Peers
- Loss of Community
- “The NIMBY Kids”: Wanda’s Story
- Coping with Conflict
- Tit for Tat
- Conflict Cycles
- Stage 1: Stress Is Triggered
- Stage 2: Emotions Are Aroused
- Stage 3: Behavior Is Goal Directed
- Stage 4: Actions Have Consequences
- The Agitated Mind
- The Amygdala: The Brain’s Danger Detector
- Angry Private Logic
- “Are You Going to Make Me?”: Theo’s Threat
- Pathways to Problems
- Misattunement
- Difficult Temperament
- Intrusive Discipline
- Maltreatment
- Categories of Cruelty
- Betrayal of Trust
- Malpractice
- Destructive Peer Climates
- Depersonalized Relationships
- Coercive Staff Intervention
- “Silenced at 14”: Joan’s Story
- The Dance of Disturbance
- Harmony versus Discord
- The Human Resilience Code
- Attachment versus Alienation
- Achievement versus Incompetence
- Autonomy versus Irresponsibility
- Altruism versus Selfishness
- Opportunity versus Threat
- “My Raging Child”: Deborah’s Story
Part II: Solutions
- Relationship Beachheads
- Adult-Wary Kids
- The Distrusting Mind
- Fight, Flight, Fool
- Yearning to Trust
- Rancor to Respect
- Communicating with Guarded Kids
- Passing the Trust Test
- Trust-Building Strategies
- “Join-Up”: Monty’s Story
- Cultivating Strengths
- Problems or Potentials
- Respectful Discipline
- Positive Peer Climates
- “My Independence Day”: Kevin’s Story
- Crisis as Opportunity
- Out of the Ashes
- Disengaging from Hostility
- Learning from Crisis Events
- Life Space Therapy
- A Tale of Two Schools
- Crisis as Opportunity
- Asking the Right Questions
- “Now I Get Respect”: Andrew’s Story
- The Developmental Audit
- The Untapped Experts
- Decoding Problem Behavior
- Constructing Growth Plans
- Connections: Social Supports
- Continuity: Coping Patterns
- Dignity: Strengths and Needs
- Opportunity: Goals for Growth
- “Traveling a New Pathway”: Craig’s Story
- Developmental Audit and Growth Plan
- “The Courage to Trust”
Appendix: A Life Space Crisis Intervention
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