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An eye-opening and heart-opening book -Bonnie Benard, Senior Program Associate, WestEd Identify and promote overlooked strengths tcultivate resilience Now more than ever, counselors, teachers, community youth workers, and parents are striving tprevent individual and school-wide tragedy before it happens Critical tthe 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 tchallenging youth by looking beyond the surface of bad behaviors tunderstand them as ways of coping with lifes adversities Strengths-Based Counseling With At-Risk Youth provides the tools both tunderstand and access strengths buried beneath problem behaviors It offers specific, effective strategies in working with adolescents tconstruct 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 tassess resilience and identify areas that need strengthening Sincere application of Ungars compassionate and open-minded strategies is sure ttransform the lives of countless adolescents in need, and the institutions that serve them
