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Handbook of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Adolescent Girls
Wiley 2007; US$ 65.00Handbook of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Adolescent Girls presents the latest research, programs, and approaches that respond to the needs of today’s adolescent girls. In this practical guide, editors Craig LeCroy and Joyce Mann have brought together a notable team of contributors to produce a resource with both diverse coverage... more...
Providing Support to Young People
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 44.95This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people. Including case studies, reflective exercises, and dialogue examples that illustrate the model and use of skills, chapters cover: the context for youth support... more...
Disconnected Youth?
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 36.00How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Have they become a 'lost generation' disconnected from society's mainstream? Do popular ideas about social exclusion or a welfare dependent underclass really connect with the lived experiences of the so-called 'disaffected', 'disengaged' and 'difficult-to-reach'? Based on close-up research with... more...
Hope Rising
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.99Kim Meeder has seen horses go where no one else can tread - stepping through the minefield of a broken child's soul in a dance of trust that only God can understand. From a mistreated horse to an emotionally starved child and back again, a torrent of love washes away their barren places. Kim's ranch is a place where this miracle happens over and over... more...
Men as Caregivers
Springer Publishing Company 2001; US$ 85.00THIS TITLE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM SPRINGER PUBLISHING. INDIVIDUALS MAY ORDER IT NEW FROM AMAZON.COM; INSTITUTIONS AND BOOKSELLERS MAY ORDER IT FROM INGRAM BOOK GROUP. Today, more and more caregivers are male. Despite this fact, the vast majority of research on caregiving has centered on the experience of the female caregiver. This volume... more...
A Quick-Start Guide to Building Assets in Your Prevention Program
Search Institute Press 2008; US$ 11.95A simple, powerful answer to the question How do you keep a positive outlook for young people when there are so many troubling issues facing them? , this guidebook teaches prevention program leaders and healthcare professionals how to implement Developmental Assets®, a research-based framework of 40 positive relationships and qualities for young... more...
More than Just a Place to Go
Search Institute Press 2004; US$ 27.95Encourages youth programs to integrate developmental assets into their current strategies. more...
A Quick-Start Guide to Building Assets in Your School
Search Institute Press 2003; US$ 7.95Busy teachers can browse in this guide for dozens of asset-building ideas to engage turned-off students in their classrooms. more...
Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 48.00This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. The author takes a systematic approach to defining and describing the differences between youth who run away from home and those who leave institutional... more...
Silent Sons
Touchstone 2008; US$ 15.99A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









