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

by Thompson; Rosemary A.

• ISBN13: 9780415950978
• ISBN10: 041595097X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• 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.

Author Biography

Rosemary A. Thompson, Ed.D., LPC, NCSC, is Supervisor of Guidance and Counseling for Chesapeake Public Schools in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Rationale and Theoretical Framework	13	(108)
Chapter 1 Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Deficits from a Developmental Perspective	15	(36)
Chapter 2 The Quest for Resilient Youth	51	(32)
Chapter 3 Psychoeducational Groups in Schools, Communities, and Institutional Settings	83	(38)
Part II Manifestations of Behaviors and Related Skills	121	(298)
Chapter 4 Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse	123	(48)
Chapter 5 Unintended Pregnancy and High-Risk Sexual Activity	171	(38)
Chapter 6 Loss, Depression, Suicide, and Self-Injury	209	(40)
Chapter 7 Violence, Delinquency, Gangs, and Bullying Behavior	249	(44)
Chapter 8 Alienation, Underachievement, and Dropping Out	293	(42)
Chapter 9 Isolation, Victimization, and Abuse of Children and Adolescents	335	(40)
Chapter 10 Sexual Minority Youth (formerly Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth [GLBT])	375	(44)
Part III Creating Positive Relationships through Engagement of All Stakeholders	419	(26)
Chapter 11 Empowering Youth, Families, Schools, and Communities	421	(24)
Epilogue	445	(4)
References	449	(60)
Index	509