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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826397403321

Autore

Ungar Michael <1963->

Titolo

Strengths-based counseling with at-risk youth / / Michael Ungar ; acquisitions editor Stacy Wagner ; copy editor Marilyn Power Scott ; cover designer Lisa Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4833-6418-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

361.06

Soggetti

Youth with social disabilities - Services for

At-risk youth - Services for

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""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""

Sommario/riassunto

This resource offers counseling strategies to promote adolescents' overlooked strengths and create healthy alternatives to problem behaviors such as bullying, drug use, violence, and promiscuity.