How to Help Your Hurting Friend: Clear Guidance for Messy Problems

by Susie Shellenberger

No issue is taboo for How to Help Your Hurting Friend , a frank and valuable handbook of practical advice for today’s teenage girls. Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting Susie Shellenberger—author and teen advocate—addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women’s lives. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and maybe even save the lives of friends. She addresses such things as self-cutting and sexual abuse in a no-nonsense way and no advice is ever vague. This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors. How to Help Your Hurting

176 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

About the author

Susie Shellenberger is the editor of "Brio" magazine for teen girls, published by Focus on the Family. She's a former youth pastor and high school speech and drama teacher. Susie has written 36 books. She has a passion for MKs and has been on every continent of the world (yes, even Antarctica). Susie sometimes eats cereal for dinner and is led on a walk around the park every day by her 150-pound Saint Bernard, Bosco.

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this is geared toward teens, I think everyone would benefit from reading this book. Beginning with a chapter on how to be a friend, it has chapters on eating disorders, depression, Internet obsession, coping with illness, self-destruction, and sexual abuse. Readers can get a basic understanding of all these, or pick the chapter needed. Not a fix-it book, but be-a-friend-to book.