Working with Challenging Youth: Seven Guiding Principles, 2nd Edition

Working with Challenging Youth, Second Edition is a practical, reader-friendly guide through the pitfalls and problems that arise when working with at-risk youth. As in the first edition, the new Working with Challenging Youth builds on a solid theoretical base in reality therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, solution-focused therapy, systems theory, and humanistic philosophy to answer the question "What distinguishes the really effective professionals from the rest?"

This second edition includes new sections on specialised, evidence-based approaches such as dialectical behaviour therapy, mindfulness, collaborative problem-solving, motivational interviewing, and multi systemic therapy.

This book also offers 7 guiding principles and 50 specific lessons to help bridge the gap between helping professionals and youth.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. An Introduction to Challenging Youth
2. Lessons Learned: Promoting Self-Awareness to Enhance Therapeutic Relationships Lesson
3. Lessons Learned: Meeting Youth Where They Are—Individually, Developmentally, and Culturally Lesson
4. Lessons Learned: Finding a Healthy Balance Between Support and Challenge
5. Lessons Learned: Framing Problems and Solutions in More Creative, Constructive, and Caring Ways
6. Lessons Learned: Viewing Youth and Families Through A Skill Development Lens
7. Lessons Learned: Valuing Systematic, Collaborative, and Preventive Approaches
8. Revisiting the Seven Principles

Index

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