At Risk Youth

by J. McWhirter, Benedict T. McWhirter, Ellen Hawley McWhirter

This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that students need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. The authors discuss the latest prevention and intervention techniques that will help future and current professionals perform their jobs successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk. New content discusses such new approaches as the flipped classroom and mindfulness approaches; expanded content covers LGBTQI youth, youth with disabilities, immigrant youth, and incarcerated youth, among other topics. The accompanying Instructors Manual (IM) and CourseMate provide ideas for group and individual projects, role-plays and practice exercises, journaling, discussion board postings, and reading and writing assignments. The IM also includes quiz items, reflection questions, You Tube/TEDTalks links, PowerPoint® slides to aid in teaching the class, and material on legal and ethical issues formerly presented in the text.

448 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2012

Reviews

[Thane Keller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have nothing negative to say about this book... but it's still a text book and it goes against my very nature to give the thing 5 stars. Great job to the authors and editors but I'm ready for some fiction!

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative, probing, and well written text on at-risk youth.

[Heather Watson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for anyone wanting to help children and youth who are in Crisis.