Working-Adolescents Books

Still reading this RARE topical find. It is mostly about people who grew up as kids or "brats" around the world -- State Dept., etc. There are certainly big paralells, ideas that applied to us military people who grew up around the country and world. I'm still on the hunt for a modern day publication that addresses US specifically -- growing up on post/base, in the environment, with the military culture and then the cut away from it, the adjustment, the lack of support because we're "used to be's" for services but "once a brat always a brat" inside. It would be great, a God send, to find a resource such as this for which I am searching. Closest read I've found yet. BIRTH ARMY TO ARMY TO LOCAL NAT'L/MILITARY TO ARMY CIV TO AIR FORCE TO civilian non military: "out here". M. Donnan

This book is so helpful for anyone married to a third culture kid - or contemplating it. It provides great insight to help understand a very different world view. Congratulations to the authors.

I think this is the best book written on the topic of third culture kids. The book is insightful and answers questions that are just under the surface for both kids and those who love them.

This book discusses emotional and identity development of children growing up in foreign countries and re-entry issues. This is an excellent book for those who have lived abroad during the developmental years 0 - 18 and for parents. A must read!

This book was recommended to us and I would recommend it to anyone living outside their own culture with kids. The information is very valuable to helping children adjust and understanding how growing up outside their culture will affect them.

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As a practicing clinician and college professor, I cannot overstate the importance of this book. As I read it, I realized that we all make quick and often inaccurate assumptions about one another, even when from the same culture. This book forces us to look at all of the ways in which we can oversimplify the behaviors or appearances of others and often jump to false and dangerous conclusions. It is certainly a book that anyone working with people from cultures other than their own (that means most of us)should read. it speaks both to the complexity and importance of the work and challenges us to look more carefully at what we do.

I have been a forensic interviewer at a Children's Advocacy Center for 9 years now. I train in the area of Forensic interviewing and specifically Diversity. I cannot say enough about the importance of Ms. Fonte's work here. From the perspective of a CAC Forensic Interviewer she is speaking directly to me and my needs in the field with this work.

CAC Executive Directors will find this book invaluable for the Standard Criteria regarding Agency Cultural Competancy. The Standard itself is addressed directly in one full chapter. If you have read this book when your review comes around and worked with it in relation to your Agency, in my humble opinon you will be on the cutting edge of the available thought and practice of Cultural Competancy at your Center. You will get it even if you can't implement it in your area just yet. This is your primer, and a MUST READ for Agency Cultural Competancy.

Ms. Fontes does talk specifically about Puerto Rican and Latino cultures in this volume more so than others, but do not discredit any part of the book for that. There are FAR reaching concepts and a paridigum shift talked about in the introduction by Jon Contes as going beyond Cultural sensitivity into more of an action and result based competency. And the book lives up to that at minimum as a GREAT PLACE TO START.

This book should become a Standard Classic in our field along side of others like Lamb and Poole's book on interviewing from the 90s, and Shame on us in the field if it does not. An interviewer dare not walk in to court anymore without have read and understood Lamb and Poole at least where if fits historically in forensic interviewing. One day this book will be of the same kind of importance.

BRAVO and Thank You To Lisa.

I work with a lot of abused children and their families who come from all over the world. I also work with children and families with other problems in a healthcare setting. This book is fabulous, and not just for issues of abuse.

Despite the heady topic, it's a good read. HIghly interesting and engaging. I especially liked the chapter on punishment, discipline, & abuse in different cultures. These are delicate and complex problems and Fontes does a good job explaining them with clarity and wisdom. I now understand why we have such difficulty tackling this issue at work, and I have ideas about how to handle it differently. This book is intelligent and practical at the same time.

Every chapter ends with some questions to "think about and discuss." At first I thought it might be a little corny--but I have brought this book to my workplace and we discussed several of the chapters and the questions. They provided an easy route to important conversations that we had never had before.

I'm going to use it in a social work class I'm teaching next semester! I think it works for beginning students and experienced pros--this is ENTIRELY NEW material and much needed. This author has done her homework!

Dr. Lisa Aronson Fontes has written a unique and extremely helpful book that is a must read for anyone who works with children and families. I had my graduate students in school counseling read and discuss the book this past year and they found it to be extremely practial, enlightening and applicable to their work. It really engaged and challenged them and sparked an extremely rich and useful dialogue. I have been looking for a book like this for some time now and I am thrilled to have finally found a well researched, compassionate and clearly written book which speaks respectfully to the complexity of these issues.

This is a must-have modern classic for the library of anyone working professionally with abused children. I would also recommend this book for the insight it provides to anyone adopting a child who may have gone through trauma or abuse. Clearly written, backed up with thorough research and guided by sensitive clinical skills, Eliana Gil's work is a primer on helping children work through trauma using their main mode of expression, play. If I could recommend only one book for training young professsionals embarking on the challenging and rewarding journey of helping kids who have been abused, this would be it.

This book is a treasure for the beginning play therapist, as well as the experienced clinician working with issues of abuse. A work sprinkled with fascinating case examples and intriguing stories, this book is truly a must have for therapists

This is a must read if you are working with children. The author is one whom I consider the best in the field. It clearly defines all the basic principles of working with abused children and helps the new practitioner become familiar with the appropriate jargon in the field of play therapy. This is the "bible" of child therapy in my opinion and is priceless.

I love this book and this author. I recommend looking at her other books!

Gil writes about many different types of child abuse. Her book is easily accessible because Gil separates her chapters into very understandable sub-headings. This makes it very easy to go back and search for a certain part. She also makes good use of bullets for simple lists and graphics of characteristics a child may show.

Gil implements a variety of case studies into the text (there's also a section dedicated simply to case studies) to show her point. She also cites many other physiatrist works to back up her points.

Gil does not just write about "the affects of child abuse," and how "traumatic child abuse is to children." She also gives an abundance of suggestions of what to do during therapy. She also includes her own outlines of "Therapeutic Goal" for each of her Case Studies at the end of the book.

I highly recommend "The Healing Power of Play."

I am a victim of sexual abuse. I have read books like NIGHTMARES ECHO,BEAUTY FOR ASHES and COURAGE TO HEAL to find help in my adult life to get over what happened to me as a child. Abuse doesn't just go away and the demons do haunt. When I found out about this book, I bought it as soon as I could.
I am very pleased there is a book like this available for the children now...rather than later down the road when the impact of abuse has taken its hold on them.
I do recommend that all Parents,Teachers etc. buy this book as well as the other two I had mentioned. Though NIGHTMARES ECHO and BEAUTY FOR ASHES are more adult oriented, I think that the parent,teacher,spuse etc can learn from these books and then help the child to over come the abuse with THE HEALING POWER OF PLAY.
I think this book was written well, and written for the regular reader to understand with out all of the large words that can confuse.

I was pleased with the speed in which this book arrived, its condition and the overall quality of the transaction. Thank you Amazon!

This book was an excellent resource in providing helpful and practical suggestions for law enforcement officers (probably a non-intended audience) to employ when working with troubled youth. Each section provides several suggestions, which contain several actual examples of their use in a practical setting. Focus is not only on the troubled youth, but issues the practitioner himself/herself must be realize as well.

I am a practicing social worker and throughout my career I have read a lot of books and articles on working with children and youth. This is the most comprehensive and practical book I have ever read on this subject. The ideas laid out by Richardson are not particularly ground breaking, but he pulls together many different theories and techniques, highlights his points with examples from his own career, and presents it all in a flowing writing style that is a pleasure to read. I can not recommend this book highly enough, for beginners and veterans, for professionals and parents. If you work with youth than you must own a copy of this book. I have never been motivated to write an amazon review before, but this book is so down-to-earth and practical that I had to recommend it.

I am a new therapist, just out of the gate. Of all the books and workbooks I've purchased over the past few months, and this is the most utilized. The exercises on "action talk" and "goal setting" have guided my early work with several families, we refer back to the lessons learned frequently. A very practical, easy-to-use resource.

I am the webowner of Mental Health Today. I cannot recommend this book enough. It contains exercises - questions in assisting people with change and dealing with problems. Excellent aid for therapists for treating clients of all ages.

From the Publisher: "Working Together" shines a bright line on group conflict and cooperation at a fundamental but understudied juncture in American social life: the workplace. Her study combines deep research and careful nuance with bristling insight and an accessible style that should attract a broad audience. For a host of reasons, American social analysts tend to minimize the importance of what happens at the job. "Working Together" is an important and impressive corrective."--Randall Kennedy

"WORKING TOGETHER is an original and important book. With eloquent prose, Cynthia Estlund convincingly develops the argument, based on a careful integration of empirical studies and social and political theory, that working together enhances inter-group relations in the long run. This book has enormous relevance for students concerned about the future of civil society, and will be widely discussed and cited for many years."

---William Julius Wilson, author of WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS and BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE

This book is it, the one best source for working with adolescent changing voices, mostly because it is backed up by research with thousands of young singers across decades of Cooksey's career (he recently retired). There are other watered down versions of the content of this book and unsupported personal experiences elsewhere, so this is the one and only. Within the very first 10 minutes with a middle school or junior high choir, the guys will be singing in harmony--they must because they are in different stages of vocal development that allow them to sing in different pitch ranges. Solutions go on to include how to seat them, what music to choose, and how to teach them to sing using kinesthetic vocal and rehearsal exercises appropriate for their young minds and bodies. Why everybody in the choral field doesn't own this book, I have always wondered. Cooksey spent his life showing that everybody, even adolescent guys, CAN SING! It's up to the teacher to uncover the innate abilities of the student. Get this book and find out how.

If you need to know how to deal with young mens' voices this is the book. Theory and practical advise in an easy to master format.

The Novicks have written in clear, interesting concepts some important aspects of supporting families and helping individuals make changes. I am sure clients as well as therapists will agree that the philosophies presented are just what the mental health field needs.

Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work, by Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick (both of whom are Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalysts on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute) is a comprehensive, "reader friendly" and exceptionally informative guide for properly identifying and contributing to a healthy parent-child relationship for the potential and long-lasting benefit of the child in a therapeutical pursuit. Supplying an expansively illustrative content of examples, studies, in-depth detailing, Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work covers diverse but common situations with fathers, divorcees', various family structures, communication modes, family secrets and loyalty ideals, and provides germane discussions on the value of a parent's involvement of their teen's life. Vitally important reading for counselors and psychotherapists working with families in clinical settings, Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work is also very highly recommended for the struggling parents of struggling children and teens for its invaluable and accessible contribution of helpful insights and general content.

I use this curriculum with a group of sixth and seventh grade girls in a school setting. It is well organized with a simple design that provides enough content to get the girls talking about issues that matter to them. The curriculum acts as a springboard rather than being cumbersome and overbearing as I've found most small group curriculum to be. A great tool for helping adolescent girls begin to unearth and validate their true selves in the midst of a very confusing culture.

This is a great resource that comprehensively covers emotional and behavioral issues; communication, language and sensory processing disorders; criminal involvement; even issues around sexuality. This is exactly what I need as a school social worker who encounters autism in my student population. The material is clear, practical and appropriate for work with K-12 age clients. I highly recommend this for any professional who works with children with autism spectrum disorders.