Troubled Children and Youth

Troubled Children and Youth uses research-supported strategies that will help improve educators relationships with students, including those who have been ignored, discarded, and branded as impossible to teach.

Promoting a positive, strength-based approach to helping students, the book reinforces the vital principle that every child is precious, building on the principles of: belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.
The book is broken down into Challenges and
Solutions with chapters on:

PART I: Challenges -
• Crisis and Courage
• Coping with Conflict
• Pathways to Problems
• The Dance of Disturbance

Part II: Solutions -
• Relationship Beachheads
• Cultivating Strengths
• Crisis as Opportunity
• The Developmental Audit
• The Courage to Trust

All ages

"The book is written in an easy-to-read style and is organised for ready reference. The content is surprisingly in-depth and comprehensive… a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about, do research in, or simply remain current in strength-based… interventions for troubled youth."
Larry L. Hill, Counseling Today