Angry Young Men How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help "Bad Boys" Become Good Men

by Kipnis, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9780787960438
• ISBN10: 0787960438
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-02
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Writing from personal and professional experience, Aaron Kipnis shares both the riveting story of his own troubled youth-and how he turned himself around-and the successful approaches he has used to help "bad boys" become good men. Angry Young Men offers specific, practical advice for parents, teachers, counselors, community leaders, and justice professionals-- everyone who wants to help at-risk boys become strong, productive, caring, and compassionate men. "Angry Young Men is an extremely important book that is especially timely now during our current epidemic of violence by and against boys and young men . . . Aaron Kipnis has seen deeply, not only into the souls of troubled boys and adolescents, but also into those aspects of the spirit of our culture and our epoch that have turned an unprecedentedly large portion of our boys and young men into the perpetrators and victims of violence."--From the Foreword by James Gilligan, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Author Biography

<B>Aaron Kipnis</B>, Ph.D., is a popular national speaker and consultant on male psychology. He is president of the Fatherhood Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding fathers in their relationships with children and spouses, and teaches therapists in training at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of <I>Knights Without Armor </I>and coauthor of <I>What Men and Women Really Want.</I> 18 02 Writing from personal and professional experience, Aaron Kipnis shares both the riveting story of his own troubled youth&#8212; and how he turned himself around&#8212; and the successful approaches he has used in his professional work as a clinical psychologist to help "bad boys" become good men. <i>Angry Young Men</i> offers specific, practical advice for parents, teachers, counselors, community leaders, and justice professionals&#8212; everyone who wants to help at-risk boys become strong, productive, caring, and compassionate men.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Bad Boys	1	(12)
Living in a House on Fire	13	(24)
Slipping Through the Cracks at School	37	(32)
Mean Streets	69	(22)
Juvenile Injustice	91	(28)
Drugs and Criminalization	119	(26)
Youth Corrections and Gangs	145	(24)
The American Gulag	169	(30)
From Bad Boys to Good Men	199	(26)
Honoring the Spirit of Young Men	225	(10)
Notes	235	(28)
Electronic Resources	263	(4)
About the Author	267	(2)
Index	269