Nurturing Future Generations: Promoting Resilience in Children and Adolescents Through Social, Emotional and Cognitive Skills

by Thompson; Rosemary A.

• ISBN13: 9780415950961
• ISBN10: 0415950961
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The statistics are pretty grim - young people face an ever increasing tide of poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, suicide, and family dysfunction. Society's response has been slow. Too many young people do not receive consistent, positive, and realistic validation of themselves from those adults on whom they depend.Nurturing Future Generationsgoes beyond the stilted rhetoric on the problems of youth and the dilemma for society by outlining 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. The new edition provides an increased focus onthe positive aspects of youth development, with less emphasis placed on the dysfunctional side of youth behavior. The book addresses emerging research on resiliency and includes increased coverage of best practices for use with troubled youth. A new chapter on LGBT youth issues has been added, and the existing chapters have been substantially revised and updated. The author has reorganized sections within each chapter, adding to the readability and flow of the book, making it more useful as both a professional reference and supplemental text.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Rationale and Theoretical Framework	p. 13
Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Deficits from a Developmental Perspective	p. 15
The Quest for Resilient Youth	p. 51
Psychoeducational Groups in Schools, Communities, and Institutional Settings	p. 83
Manifestations of Behaviors and Related Skills	p. 121
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse	p. 123
Unintended Pregnancy and High-Risk Sexual Activity	p. 171
Loss, Depression, Suicide, and Self-Injury	p. 209
Violence, Delinquency, Gangs, and Bullying Behavior	p. 249
Alienation, Underachievement, and Dropping Out	p. 293
Isolation, Victimization, and Abuse of Children and Adolescents	p. 335
Sexual Minority Youth (formerly Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth [GLBT])	p. 375
Creating Positive Relationships through Engagement of All Stakeholders	p. 419
Empowering Youth, Families, Schools, and Communities	p. 421
Epilogue	p. 445
References	p. 449
Index	p. 509
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