Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens: 04 (Adolescent Lives) - Softcover

Hauser, Stuart T.; Allen, Joseph P.; Golden, Eve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674027345 ISBN 13: 9780674027343

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2008

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Tales of Resilient Teens

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"Unlike most studies of high-risk youth, this one, written largely in lay terms, focuses on the positive, and although the authors certainly never claim to have all the answers, they do provide some useful insight that can guide educators and others dedicated to keeping dysfunctional young people 'out of the woods.' " - Stephanie Zvirin, Booklist "The authors pinpoint three qualities as key to [teens'] resilience -reflectiveness, engagement with others, and a belief that they themselves could find the motivation to bring about change in their lives. Anyone working with children may need to 'see in the dark' to find these qualities beneath troubled behaviors, but the insights that Hauser and [company] give in this book will light the way." - New Scientist"

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Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They're not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They are out of control-violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Their futures are at risk. Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. But astonishingly, a handful are thriving. They're off drugs and on the right side of the law. They've finished school and hold jobs that matter to them. They have close friends and are responsible, loving parents. What happened? How did some kids stumble out of the woods while others remain lost? Could their strikingly different futures have been predicted back during their teenage struggles? The kids provide the answers in a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later. Even in the early days, the resilient kids had a grasp of how they contributed to their own troubles. They tried to make sense of their experience and they groped toward an understanding of other people's inner lives. In their own impatient voices, Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on interviews through the years, narratives that are often poignant, sometimes dramatic, frequently funny, we hear the kids growing into more composed-yet always recognizable-versions of their tough and feisty selves.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674027345
• ISBN 13: 9780674027343
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336