Strengths-based counseling with at-risk youth

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Strengths-based counseling with at-risk youth

Michael Ungar

Corwin Press, c2006

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index

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内容説明

"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.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Chapter 1. Surviving and Thriving The Many Ways Youth Survive Three Survival Strategies, Three Identities Power and Self-Definition Substitution as Intervention Narrative Interventions Powerful Alternatives Chapter 2. Three Identities: Pandas, Chameleons, and Leopards The Stuck Panda The Uncertain Chameleon The Demanding Leopard Pegs and Holes Chapter 3. Six Strategies for Nurturing Resilience Overview of the Six Strategies Paths to Resilience: Conventional and Unconventional Strategy 1: Hear Their Truth Chapter 4. From Truth to Action: Implementing Strategies Two Through Five Strategy 2: Help Youth Look Critically at Their Behavior Strategy 3: Create Opportunities That Fit With What Youth Say They Need Strategy 4: Speak In Ways Youth Will Hear and Respect Strategy 5: Find the Difference That Counts the Most Chapter 5. The Many Expressions of Youth Resilience Strategy 6: Substitute Rather Than Suppress Substitutions for Drug Use Substitutions for Other At-Risk Behaviors The Many Expressions of Resilience Chapter 6. A New Way to Look at Bullying Bullying as Coping: Jake Bullying and the Three Identities Providing Opportunities for Adaptation Substitutions for Bullies Substitutions for Victims Chapter 7. Assessing Resilience The Resilient Youth Strengths Inventory Evaluating Fairly Chapter 8. Translating the Results of the Resilient Youth Strengths Inventory Pandas Shoot Chameleons Score Leopards Win Using Results to Inform Our Efforts Conclusion: The Need for Change References Index

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