Synopses & Reviews
400+ video clips!Up to 65 CME/CEU credits!
This groundbreaking multimedia resource embodies the core belief that identifying, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths can facilitate positive youth development. Text and video components combine to show how expert-tested, strength-based communication approaches work to engage today's teens.
Contritutions from leading practitioners - plus firsthand perspectives from teens - help you refine your communication strategies and skills.
Successful solutions targeting today's foremost youth-development issues
Created to benefit all professionals who serve adolescents, Reaching Teens explores and demonstrates communications strategies for diverse healthcare, counseling, youth program, and educational settings. Professionals and teens offer hard-won insight on addressing behavioral and emotional issues; crisis management; stress management; sexuality; grief; depression; peer pressure; substance abuse; bullying; youth violence - virtually all the issues you're most likely to encounter.
Turn here for actionable advice and counsel spanning the toughest youth communication challenges:
- How to help teens recognize existing strengths
- How to empower wider decisions and healthier choices
- How to foster resilience-building
- How to ally with parents and support effective parenting
- How to develop and prioritize your interventions
- How to help with special psychosocial and environmental challenges
- How to de-escalate crisis situations
- How to establish appropriate boundaries
- How to discourage unhealthy relationships
- How to serve populations with special healthcare needs
- How to practice effective self-care that enhances your ability to serve youth
- Plus much more!
Review
"An action-oriented roadmap linking today's adults with tomorrow's successors...
Reaching Teens is the art of healing at its best."
Gail B. Slap, MD, MSc, FSAHM
Review
"This is an important project with tremendous potential to engage all youth-serving professionals and better prepare them to communicate with youth, foster resilience, and promote positive youth development."
Debra K. Katzman, MD, FSAHM
SAHM President, 2013-2014
Synopsis
Developed for all youth serving professionals, this book with video component reviews the basic principles of strength-based communication, discusses the sources of worry for teens, offers practical approaches for helping youth understand they can control their reactions and behaviors, and offers strategies to help professionals deescalate tension when stressors lead to crises.
Synopsis
Designed to teach clinicians and other youth-serving professionals how to communicate effectively with teens, with a focus on strength-based communication styles used to engage teens in positive behavioral change and help them cope with stress.
Synopsis
- More than 100 cloud-based video clips- Group learning and discussion topics
In today's pressure-cooker society, youth need to tap into their strengths, acquire specific skills to cope, recover from adversity, and be prepared for future challenges. That's a tall order for young people but may be particularly challenging for youth exposed to chronic stress or traumatic experiences.
Most risky teen behaviors serve at least partly as coping strategies that help youth manage uncomfortable stressors. These behaviors offer fleeting relief but lead to troubling patterns that only magnify stress and are in some cases life threatening. Helping youth develop a range of positive alternative coping strategies may diminish their need to turn to these worrisome quick fixes and will prepare them to thrive.
Developed for all youth serving professionals, Guiding Adolescents to Use Healthy Strategies to Manage Stress helps you
- Improve your skill sets in helping adolescents manage life's challenges.
- Offer practical approaches for guiding youth to control their reactions and choose healthier behaviors
- Use strategies to de-escalate tension when stressors lead to crises