Youth at Risk

by Capuzzi, Dave; Gross, Douglas R.

• ISBN13: 9781556202308
• ISBN10: 155620230X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Amer Counseling Assn

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Meet the Editors	xi
Meet the Authors	xiii
PART ONE Introducing the Problem
Defining Youth at Risk	3	(18)
Douglas R. Gross
David Capuzzi
Prevention: An Overview	21	(14)
David Capuzzi
Douglas R. Gross
Resilience: Individual, Family, School, and Community Perspectives	35	(34)
Rolla E. Lewis
PART TWO Examining the Causes
The Impact of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics on Children and Adolescents	69	(24)
Valerie E. Appleton
Cass Dykeman
``Who Cares What I Think'': Problems of Low Self-Esteem	93	(24)
Sandra S. Meggert
Preventing and Treating Depression and Bipolar Disorders in Children and Adolescents	117	(26)
Benedict T. McWhirter
Jason J. Burrow-Sanchez
Stress and Trauma: Coping in Today's Society	143	(24)
Russell D. Miars
PART THREE Working With Youth at Risk: Prevention and Intervention
The Secret and All-Consuming Obsessions: Eating Disorders	167	(44)
Kimberly Wright
Children Having Children: Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood	211	(32)
Melinda Haley
Ardis Sherwood-Hawes
A Future in Jeopardy: Adolescents and AIDS	243	(32)
Lizbeth A. Gray
Donna A. Champeau
Reese M. House
``I Don't Want to Live'': The Adolescent at Risk for Suicidal Behavior	275	(28)
David Capuzzi
Douglas R. Gross
``I Am Somebody'': Gang Membership	303	(28)
Sonja C. Burnham
Counseling Queer Youth: Preventing Another Matthew Shepard Story	331	(22)
Fernando J. Gutierrez
Death in the Classroom: Violence in Schools	353	(20)
Abbe Finn
``I Can't Live Without It'': Adolescent Substance Abuse	373	(28)
Camea J. Gagliardi
Alberta M. Gloria
Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius
Christina Lambert
Nowhere to Turn: Homeless Youth	401	(24)
Melissa Stormont
``This Isn't the Place for Me'': School Dropout	425	(16)
Mary A. Hermann
Index	441