Helping the Struggling Adolescent : A Guide to Thirty-six Common Problems for Counselors, Pastors and Youth Workers (Hardcover)

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Product Description
This practical resource tool and handbook for counselors, pastors, and youth workers details over thirty common teenage problems arranged alphabetically from abuse to suicide, including such hot topics as anger, depression, drugs and alcohol, homosexuality, loneliness, masturbation, peer pressure, pornography, and shyness. Bound into the back of the book is a Counseling Guide that includes information on special issues in counseling and 43 Rapid Assessment Tests.

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Helping the Struggling Adolescent is your first resource to turn to when a teen you know is in trouble. Whether you're a youth worker, counselor, pastor, or teacher, this fast, ready reference is a compendium of insight on teen problems from abuse to violence and everything between. Help starts here for thirty-six common, critical concerns. Topics are arranged in alphabetical order. Each chapter gives you essential information for several vital questions: What does the specific struggle look like? Why did it happen? How can you help? When should you refer to another expert? Where can you find additional resources? Arranged in three sections, this book first gives you the basics of being an effective helper, Then it informs you on the different struggles of adolescents. The final section--a key component of this book--supplies more than forty rapid assessment tools for use with specific problems. Helping the Struggling Adolescent organizes and condenses biblical counseling issues for teens into one extremely useful volume. Keep it in arm's reach for the answers you need, right when you need them.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Revised and Expanded edition (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310234077
• ISBN-13: 978-0310234074
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #200,433 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents, July 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Helping the Struggling Adolescent: A Counseling Guide (Paperback)

PART ONE: EFFECTIVE HELPING 1. Adolescence: A Struggle for Identity 2. Characteristics of Effective Helping: A Self-Inventory 3. The Heart of Helping 4. A Parent's Guide to Professional Help PART TWO: THE STRUGGLES OF ADOLESCENTS Abuse, Anger, Anxiety, Body Image, Depression, Drugs and Alcohol, Eating Disorders, Forgiveness, God's Will, Grief, Guilt, Homosexuality, Inferiority, Loneliness, Masturbation, Obsessions and Compulsions, Panic Attacks, Parents, Peer Pressure, Phobias, Pornography, Promiscuity and Premarital Sex, Schizophrenia, School Work, Shyness, Siblings, Sleep Disturbance, Spiritual Doubt, Stuttering, Suicide (Each of the chapters takes the format of: What the Struggle Looks Like, Why the Struggle Happens, How To Help, When to Refer)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for anyone working with youth!, January 21, 2003

By	Greg Wiens (Elm Creek, Manitoba, Canada) - See all my reviews

I have been in youth ministry for nine years and this is the best comprehensive book I have for youth in crisis. It deals with every imaganable problem young people are facing and uses sound biblical, theological and sosiological information on how best to help as a youth pastor or youth leader.
As a matter of fact I don't even know where the text is right now because it is in such high demand from my youth sponsors.
Helping Stuggling Adolescents uses many tools to help the reader get into the mind of the struggling teen. One example is it uses case studies. It also has test that can be used in assessing problem situations.
In my view this is a must buy for any new youth pastor and an important tool in anyone's hand who works with youth in a Christian enviornment.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy quick guide to assiting todays youth, September 13, 2000

By	J. Koscher (Indiana) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent resource for therapist! It's like cliff-notes for today's youths. Divided up in easy to use sections highlighting 36 common youth issues. Each section outlines what this particular struggle looks like, why it may be occuring, helpful hints on how to treat along with information for parents and case studies. The updated topics impressed me as cutting edge (Internet and Computer Game Addiction, Cohabitation, etc.) as well as the traditional issues (Eating Disorders, Grief, etc.)If all this wasn't enough... wait there's more! Included are 43 rapid assessment test for several different areas. When psychological text are over $80 to purchase $29 is a steal.