Clinicians, educators, mentors, and youth professionals are presented with research-based strategies that will help improve their relationships with youth, including those who have been ignored, discarded, and branded as incorrigible.

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In Troubled Children and Youth: Turning Problems into Opportunities, clinicians, teachers, youth professionals, mentors, and parents are presented with research-based strategies that will help them improve their relationships with youth, including those who have been ignored, discarded, and branded as incorrigible. While opening the door to a positive, strength-based approach to helping youth, the book reinforces a vital principle that tribal communities have embraced for centuries. Every child is precious, and even those who are lost and marginalized can and should be reclaimed by society.

Papercover, 6 x 9, 264 pages

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PART I: Challenges

1. Crisis and Courage
   • Courage Builders
   • Circles of Courage
   • Disconnected Children
     • Families on the Edge
     • Conflict in School
     • Trouble with Peers
     • Loss of Community
   • The NIMBY Kids : Wanda s Story
   
   
2. Coping with Conflict
   • Tit for Tat
   • Conflict Cycles
     • Stage 1: Stress Is Triggered
     • Stage 2: Emotions Are Aroused
     • Stage 3: Behavior Is Goal Directed
     • Stage 4: Actions Have Consequences
   • The Agitated Mind
     • The Amygdala: The Brain s Danger Detector
     • Angry Private Logic
   • Are You Going to Make Me? : Theo s Threat
   
   
3. Pathways to Problems
   • Misattunement
     • Difficult Temperament
     • Intrusive Discipline
   • Maltreatment
     • Categories of Cruelty
     • Betrayal of Trust
   • Malpractice
     • Destructive Peer Climates
     • Depersonalized Relationships
     • Coercive Staff Intervention
   • Silenced at 14 : Joan s Story
   
   
4. The Dance of Disturbance
   • Harmony versus Discord
   • The Human Resilience Code
     • Attachment versus Alienation
     • Achievement versus Incompetence
     • Autonomy versus Irresponsibility
     • Altruism versus Selfishness
   • Opportunity versus Threat
   • My Raging Child : Deborah s Story
   
   

   Part II: Solutions

5. Relationship Beachheads
   • Adult-Wary Kids
     • The Distrusting Mind
     • Fight, Flight, Fool
     • Yearning to Trust
   • Rancor to Respect
     • Communicating with Guarded Kids
     • Passing the Trust Test
   • Trust-Building Strategies
   • Join-Up : Monty s Story
   
   
6. Cultivating Strengths
   • Problems or Potentials
   • Respectful Discipline
   • Positive Peer Climates
   • My Independence Day : Kevin s Story
   
   
7. Crisis as Opportunity
   • Out of the Ashes
     • Disengaging from Hostility
     • Learning from Crisis Events
   • Life Space Therapy
   • A Tale of Two Schools
     • Crisis as Opportunity
     • Asking the Right Questions
   • Now I Get Respect : Andrew s Story
   
   
8. The Developmental Audit
   • The Untapped Experts
   • Decoding Problem Behavior
   • Constructing Growth Plans
     • Connections: Social Supports
     • Continuity: Coping Patterns
     • Dignity: Strengths and Needs
     • Opportunity: Goals for Growth
   • Traveling a New Pathway : Craig s Story
     • Developmental Audit and Growth Plan
   
   
9. The Courage to Trust

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