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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues
Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and how they develop as language users. This unique resource provides guidance to these professionals by pairing literacy specialists with counselors who introduce information about societal issues important to today’s adolescents. These experts then explore literature in which issues such as: body image, sexuality, and leaving home are addressed in ways likely to interest teens. By examining fictional characters, these experts provide guidance to those working with teenagers, so they can encourage adolescents to deal with the conflicts and issues imposed upon them by our… More >>
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues
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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues
Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and how they develop as language users. This unique resource provides guidance to these professionals by pairing literacy specialists with counselors who introduce information about societal issues important to today’s adolescents. These experts then explore literature in which issues such as: body image, sexuality, and leaving home are addressed in ways likely to interest teens. By examining fictional characters, these experts provide guidance to those working with teenagers, so they can encourage adolescents to deal with the conflicts and issues imposed upon them by our… More >>
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues
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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues
The search for one’s identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt, meant to help people discover themselves and who they are. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels and how to use them effectively. Educators and therapists explore the literature where common identity issues are addressed in ways intriguing to teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on how to encourage adoles… More >>
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues
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Bullying and the Brain: Using Cognitive and Emotional Intelligence to Help Kids Cope
Numerous books have been written about bullying, but most of them only deal with external interventions_those that suggest teaching students more appropriate social skills. Here, Gary Plaford examines internal interventions; external interventions; monitoring and controlling bullying behaviors; issues related to students_the bullies, victims, and bystanders; the latest research on the brain and emotional intelligence; managing emotional triggers; building connections; and creating an outward focus…. More >>
Bullying and the Brain: Using Cognitive and Emotional Intelligence to Help Kids Cope
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Hidden Dangers to Kids’ Learning: A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks
This book describes many of the subtle problems sabotaging children’s educations and what parents can do to find solutions for a broken system…. More >>
Hidden Dangers to Kids’ Learning: A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks
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