Nurturing An Endangered Generation: Empowering Youth with Critical Social, Emotional, & Cognitive Skills

by Thompson,Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781560326687
• ISBN10: 1560326689
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

The problems facing today's youth demonstrate the critical need for adults to teach them skills such as assertiveness, decision making, conflict resolution, impulse control, anger management, empathy, sensitivity, and tolerance of difference.

This book outlines specific treatment intervention and prevention strategies that address the full spectrum of dysfunctional behavior. It introduces structured intervention strategies for school and community collaboration, with an emphasis on remediation and treatment. Educators and helping professionals will find counseling strategies and psychoeducational techniques that focus on primary prevention. These primary prevention strategies are supported by an understanding of critical social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi	(6)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
PART I RATIONALE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK	3	(66)
CHAPTER 1 SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND COGNITIVE SKILLS DEFICITS: ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE	3	(14)
Dangerous Deficits	6	(5)
Importance of Self-Esteem	11	(4)
Life Skills Training Model	15	(1)
Conclusion	16	(1)
CHAPTER 2 EMPOWERING YOUTH: SOLUTION-FOCUSED COUNSELING AND MULTIMODAL INTERVENTIONS	17	(28)
Psychosocial Stressors and Coping Skill Deficits	19	(1)
Quest for Resilient Youth	20	(3)
Nurturing Hope	23	(4)
Empowering Youth	27	(1)
Solution-Focused Counseling	28	(5)
Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools, Communities, and Institutional Settings	33	(1)
Comprehensive Interventions with Multimodal Counseling	34	(9)
Conclusion	43	(2)
CHAPTER 3 PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL GROUPS IN INSTITUTIONAL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS	45	(24)
Group-Focused Facilitation Skills	46	(1)
Types of Psychoeducational Groups	47	(5)
Curative and Therapeutic Factors	52	(2)
Therapeutic Intentions	54	(2)
Structured Intervention: Collective Initiatives	56	(7)
Life Skills Training Paradigm	63	(2)
Conclusion	65	(4)
PART II MANIFESTATIONS OF BEHAVIOR AND RELATED SKILLS	69	(212)
CHAPTER 4 ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE	69	(38)
Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use	71	(6)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	77	(6)
Conclusion	83	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	84	(23)
CHAPTER 5 UNINTENDED PREGNANCY AND HIGH-RISK SEXUAL ACTIVITY	107	(28)
Predictors of High-Risk Sexual Behaviors	109	(2)
Child Abuse and Social Disorganization	111	(1)
Health Risks	112	(1)
Adolescent Fathers	113	(1)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	114	(4)
Conclusion	118	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	119	(16)
CHAPTER 6 LOSS, DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDE	135	(30)
Predictors of Teen Suicide	136	(4)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	140	(12)
Conclusion	152	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	153	(12)
CHAPTER 7 CONFLICTED YOUTH, DELINQUENCY, AND VIOLENCE	165	(28)
Predictors of Violent Behavior	167	(2)
Youth at Risk for Gang Membership	169	(3)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	172	(12)
Conclusion	184	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	185	(8)
CHAPTER 8 ALIENATION, UNDERACHIEVEMENT, AND DROPPING OUT	193	(46)
Skills for the 21st Century	195	(1)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	196	(22)
Conclusion	218	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	218	(21)
CHAPTER 9 ISOLATION, VICTIMIZATION, AND ABUSE	239	(42)
Sexual Abuse in the Family	241	(1)
Indicators of Abuse	242	(2)
Rape	244	(2)
Runaways and Homeless Youth	246	(1)
Structured Interventions for High-Risk Behaviors	247	(17)
Conclusion	264	(1)
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Skills	265	(16)
PART III CREATING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH EMPOWERMENT OF OTHERS	281	(16)
CHAPTER 10 EMPOWERING YOUTH, FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES	281	(16)
Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities	282	(1)
Educators and Helping Professionals as Partners	283	(1)
Solution-Focused Encouragement	284	(1)
Necessary Collaboration	285	(1)
Educational Alternatives	286	(2)
Collective Initiatives for At-Risk Youth	288	(3)
Conclusion	291	(6)
EPILOGUE	297	(4)
REFERENCES	301	(40)
INDEX	341	(12)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	353