Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers are Depressed and Contemplate Suicide written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new series of books designed for anyone connected to teenagers, Dr. Steven Gerali addresses six daunting and difficult situations that, when they do happen, often leave youth workers and parents feeling unprepared. With a background in adolescent counseling, Dr. Gerali provides valuable resources to help youth workers and parents through some of the most challenging situations they may face. Each book defines the issue, explores how different theological perspectives can impact the situation, offers helpful, practical tips, along with credible resources to help the reader go deeper into the issues they’re dealing with. This direct and hard-hitting series will include: • What Do I Do When…Death Comes—How to help teens through the questions and pain that arise when another student dies • What Do I Do When…Bullying and Violence Hits Home—Understanding and addressing the issues of bullying in and out of the youth group • What Do I Do When…We Encounter Sexual and Physical Abuse—How to handle issues of sexual and physical abuse, including practical intervention strategies and legal parameters • What Do I Do When…Families are Shattered by Dysfunction and Divorce—Equipping youth workers to help students pick up the broken pieces and find health and healing in the midst of family breakdown • What Do I Do When…Secret Eating Disorders Eat Away at Kids—Understanding and recognizing eating disorders in order to initiate helping strategies for teens dealing with this issue • What Do I Do When…Homosexuality Comes Out of the Closet and Into the Youth Ministry—Equipping youth workers to help students navigate the dangerous waters created by this issue, and educate other leaders on how to engage with homosexuality in the church"
Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers Deal with Death written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody can prepare you for all the issues you’ll encounter when it comes to teenagers. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, chances are that you’ve already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to deal with. You’re not alone! In this hard-hitting series of books, you’ll find answers to the difficult questions you face when challenges arise. In What Do I Do When Teenagers Deal with Death?, Dr. Steven Gerali will help you:• Understand adolescent death, whether accidental, illness-related, homicide or suicide• Grasp the stages of grief and what they look like in adolescents• Explore how theology informs the issue of death• Delve into questions that demand theological consideration, such as, “Why does God allow tragedy? or “Is the dead person in heaven?”• Get tips for practical ways to help when a youth group experiences death, including helping the grieving family and the surviving teenagers• Deal with your own personal grief in the situationWith this practical book, you’ll have what you need to offer help and hope to hurting teens and their families, and you’ll find plenty of resources for help beyond what you’re able to give.
Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers Struggle with Eating Disorders written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no how-to manual when it comes to helping teenagers with the multitude of issues they’ll face during their adolescence. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, you’ve probably already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to deal with. You are not alone!In this hard-hitting series of books, you’ll find answers to the difficult questions you face when challenges arise. Knowing that ninety-five percent of all the people with diagnosed eating disorders are teenage girls, it’s likely that you’ll encounter this issue if you interact with teens. In What Do I Do When Teenagers Struggle with Eating Disorders?, Dr. Steven Gerali will help you:• Understand eating disorders, along with the underlying issues that typically contribute to the disorders• Recognize warning signs that may mean a teen is developing an eating disorder• Realize the role and responsibility the Church has to mobilize help for teens with eating disorders• Create interventions when teens or their parents deny the problem• Develop a referral strategy for teens who need help addressing their eating disorderIn this practical book, you’ll discover how to identify and help a teen who is struggling with an eating disorder, and you’ll find plenty of resources for help beyond what you’re able to give."
Download or read book Understanding Teenage Depression written by Dr. Maureen Empfield and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the latest scientific findings, a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of teenage depression. Each year thousands of American teenagers are diagnosed with clinical depression. If ignored, poorly treated, or left untreated, it can be a devastating illness for adolescents and their families. Drawing on her many years of experience as a pychiatrist working with teenagers, Dr. Maureen Empfield answers the questions parents and teens have about depression, providing detailed information on: *Identifying the different types of depression *How depression is diagnosed *Which teenagers are most at risk *Suicide *The effect of depression on other teenage problems *How depression is treated and by whom *The drugs used to treat teenage depression - what they are and how they work *When a teenager needs to be hospitalized for depression *and more Understanding Teenage Depression provides the latest scientific findings on this serious condition, and the most up to date information on its treatment. The book includes numerous vignettes drawn from Dr. Empfield's clinical practice as well as first person accounts from teenagers who have themselves suffered from depression. Understanding Teenage Depression is a book that anyone who's been touched by this disease - whether parents, teachers, family members or teens themselves - will find invaluable.
Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers Question Their Sexuality written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Do I Do When Teenagers Question Their Sexuality?, you'll explore teens' struggles with sexuality, how theology intersects with it, and what practical actions you can take to help teens and their families.
Download or read book What Do I Do When Teenagers Encounter Bullying and Violence written by Steven Gerali and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody can prepare you for all the issues you’ll encounter when it comes to teenagers. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, chances are that you’ve already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to deal with. You’re not alone! In this hard-hitting series of books, you’ll find answers to the difficult questions you face when challenges arise. In What Do I Do When Teenagers Encounter Bullying and Violence?, Dr. Steven Gerali will help you:• Understand the issues of bullying, violence, and aggression• Grasp the factors that play into the issue, including the gender difference in the issue• Identify the profiles of the aggressors, victims, and gangs • Explore how theology informs the issue• Delve into questions that demand theological consideration, such as “Why are people so cruel?” and “Why does God allow suffering?”• Get tips to help prevent bullying in your youth group and how to transform the bully and empower the victim• Find ways to deal with the issue when it is specifically targeted at your youth groupWith this practical book, you’ll have what you need to help the victims and transform the bullies, and you’ll find plenty of resources for help beyond what you’re able to give.
Download or read book Are our kids really that angry An empirical investigation into adolescent aggression in the South African context written by Gary Elliott and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective for this study was to conduct an empirical investigation to gather information in the form of data from adolescent males and females in the Pretoria region of South Africa. Information was gathered with respects to their level of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, hostility and depression. The information was used to identify whether correlations exist between the three variables anger, aggression and depression for South African adolescents.
Download or read book Cutting and Self Injury written by Greg Roza and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting and self-injury are delicate issues many teens face and this title offers nonjudgmental guidance and information to those who cut and self injure as well as to their friends and family. Often, the problem is connected to a deeper issue that, if not addressed, can lead to problems much more serious than those that are just skin deep. Topics addressed are why people self-injure, getting help, and learning to cope, all of which are covered with Rosen’s hallmark sensitivity to such serious health-related issues.
Download or read book Depression written by Jacqueline B. Toner and published by Magination Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have picked up this book, you probably want nothing more than to understand why you feel the way you do and how to feel better. You want those depressed thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to just go away, right? Inside you'll read about what depression is, how it can derail you, and effective ways to take care of yourself if you are depressed. Full of useful information, helpful self-reflection quizzes, easy-to-do exercises, and based firmly on cognitive-behavioral principles, this book will provide you with a concrete plan that could make huge difference in your health and well-being -- a difference that lasts.
Download or read book iGen written by Jean M. Twenge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.
Download or read book Helping the Struggling Adolescent written by Les Parrott and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping the Struggling Adolescent is your first resource to turn to when a teen you know is in trouble. Whether you're a youth worker, counselor, pastor, or teacher, this fast, ready reference is a compendium of insight on teen problems from abuse to violence and everything between. Help starts here for thirty-six common, critical concerns. Topics are arranged in alphabetical order. Each chapter gives you essential information for several vital questions: What does the specific struggle look like? Why did it happen? How can you help? When should you refer to another expert? Where can you find additional resources? Arranged in three sections, this book first gives you the basics of being an effective helper, then it informs you on the different struggles of adolescents. The final section--a key component of this book--supplies more than forty rapid assessment tools for use with specific problems. Helping the Struggling Adolescent organizes and condenses biblical counseling issues for teens into one extremely useful volume. Keep it in arm's reach for the answers you need, right when you need them.
Download or read book Suicide Intervention in the Schools written by Scott Poland and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1989-04-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, school-based crisis intervention program can do a great deal to prevent teenage suicide, and to help the school community survive if a tragedy cannot be averted. In this important book, Scott Poland, who has written and lectured extensively on the topic, provides professionals with practical, step-by-step guidelines for setting up and maintaining such a program. Including numerous illustrative case examples, the book emphasizes the role played by all school personnel in suicide intervention and prevention. It is an invaluable resource for school psychologists, counselors, teachers, and administrators.
Download or read book Beyond the Blues written by Lisa M. Schab and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite what you might have been told, the feelings of sadness and hopelessness you may be struggling with are probably not "just a phase" or "something you'll grow out of." As many as 20 percent of people your age have symptoms of serious depression, yet many teens and even many adults don't recognize the signs. Only half of depressed teens get the help they need to overcome these feelings. If you're feeling depressed, this workbook offers things you can do, both on your own and with a counselor, to feel better.
Download or read book Try Not to Breathe written by Jennifer R. Hubbard and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer Ryan is released from a mental hospital following his suicide attempt, he meets Nicki, who gets him to share his darkest secrets while hiding secrets of her own.
Download or read book Treating Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents written by David A. Brent and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized treatment plans that combine cognitive and behavioral techniques, emotion regulation interventions, family involvement, and antidepressant medication. Illustrated with many clinical examples, each chapter includes a concise overview and key points. Reproducible treatment planning forms and client handouts can also be downloaded and printed by purchasers in a convenient full-page size.
Download or read book Reducing Suicide written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the U.S., and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to access professional help. Reducing Suicide provides a blueprint for addressing this tragic and costly problem: how we can build an appropriate infrastructure, conduct needed research, and improve our ability to recognize suicide risk and effectively intervene. Rich in data, the book also strikes an intensely personal chord, featuring compelling quotes about people's experience with suicide. The book explores the factors that raise a person's risk of suicide: psychological and biological factors including substance abuse, the link between childhood trauma and later suicide, and the impact of family life, economic status, religion, and other social and cultural conditions. The authors review the effectiveness of existing interventions, including mental health practitioners' ability to assess suicide risk among patients. They present lessons learned from the Air Force suicide prevention program and other prevention initiatives. And they identify barriers to effective research and treatment. This new volume will be of special interest to policy makers, administrators, researchers, practitioners, and journalists working in the field of mental health.
Download or read book Help For Parents Maximized Parenting 112 Solutions to the Parenting Problems of Today written by Francis Edo Olotu and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective parenting is about raising well-adjusted children who are assets to society; Maximized Parenting is a book which promotes effective parenting through equipping parents with the knowledge that fosters proper foundation for parenting. According to Partnership for 21st Century Skills [2006] and American Management Association's [AMA] 2010 Survey, many employers believe that higher education is failing in its role to adequately develop needed skills in students. Parents with the help of this book can bridge the knowledge gap between what higher education provides and what the employment industry requires. The book is for parents who consider parenting as one of their most important responsibilities in life. One of the greatest assets a child could have is dutiful parents from whom he/she learns the act of parenting. Parents without this privilege are large in number and to them parenting is a dark continent which they find difficult to navigate. This book is written to inform, inspire and impart knowledge about parenting in the 21st century. The book would enable parents interact with their children in a way that would motivate them to be outstanding persons in life. In this information age, you cannot limit your child to how you were brought up or what you know because he/she was born in another era. The gamut of issues covered in this book will equip you to bring up your child to be successful in life. Issues treated in this book will help you know healthy parenting methods that are best for your child The book contains a very broad mix of issues a parent would encounter at every stage of a child's life. It is written from the perspective that a parent's job is for life and as such parents need help to sustain their long term commitment to their children. Issues covered include character building, instilling moral values into children, basic life skills at every stage of life, sexuality education and handling children with special needs. While the information in this book is specifically for parents, the information would be useful to fathers' groups, men's groups, women's groups, grandparents, extended family members and childcare providers that have opportunities to relate to children. Research now and again has shown that a family is more important to a child's school success than how much money the family makes or how much education the parents have. No parent who has read this book should ever ask "How can I make my child a success in life." The social commentator Michael Novak wrote on the importance of family, "One unforgettable law has been learned through all the disasters and injustices of the last thousand years: if things go well with the family, life is worth living; when the family falters, life falls apart". The goal of Maximized Parenting is to fill the knowledge gap in you that will make you a better parent as well as an inspiration to other parents of the 21st century. Choose to be an intentional parent who will put in the needed time, energy and efforts to raise successful children. Know that expensive toys and vacations are a poor substitute for the valuable time you need to spend with your children. Refuse to outsource your parenting duties to care givers and boarding schools and you will be a stakeholder in the next generations through your children who will pass on your legacies. Remember, when a parent dies, one thing that cannot be buried with him/her is his/her impact on the lives of his/her children, those things become a living memorial in his/her children.