Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope. Martha Straus, $42.00

A highly practical resource, ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN CRISIS explores concrete strategies and methods for helping girls in crisis by focusing on identification, diagnosis and treatment of many of the troubled and troubling behaviors—including oppositional defiant disorder, trauma, eating disorders, and attachment problems, among others. Using a developmental-relational model of intervention, Straus explores the ways in which clinicians and caregivers can successfully reach out to the girls behind these often frightening behaviors, and how to help them cope.

Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe. David Wolfe, Peter Jaffe & Claire Crooks, $69.95

This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.

The Adolescent & Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual: a Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach. Mathew Selekman, $42.50

This is a practical and informative manual that will help both experienced and beginning therapists feel more confident and competent working with adolescent and young self-harming clients.

Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury and the Adolescent Search for Self. Lori Plante, $22.95

Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. Cutting represents a rapidly spreading method for teens hoping to ease emotional pain and suffering and it can also be a dramatic means of communicating, controlling, and asking for help from others. Plante describes the frightening developmental tasks teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of independence, intimacy, and identity compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will come to a better understanding of these struggling teenagers and the dramatic methods they employ to ease and overcome their internal pain through a desperate need to cut and self-injure.

Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention. David Miller, $33.50

Meeting a crucial need, this book distills the best current knowledge on child and adolescent suicide prevention into comprehensive guidelines for school-based practitioners. The author draws on extensive research and clinical experience to provide best-practice recommendations for developing school-wide prevention programs, conducting risk assessments, and intervening at different levels of intensity with students at risk. Also presented are post-intervention procedures for responding effectively if a suicide does occur. Legal and ethical issues are addressed in detail.

Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-Esteem. Nick Luxmoore, $24.95

We use the word all the time, but what exactly is self-esteem, and how do young people develop it? FEELING LIKE CRAP explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might really help that self to feel more valued and confident. Through accounts of his individual and group work with young people, Nick Luxmoore demonstrates how listening to, engaging with and being respectful of young people can provide the support they need to help them repair their sense of self and offer them new possibilities and directions in life. This compassionate and thought-provoking book will be an invaluable resource for counsellors, teachers, youth workers, and anyone else working to help young people with self-esteem issues.

Human Givens Therapy with Adolescents: a Practical Guide for Professionals. Yvonne Yates, $40.95

Human Givens therapy recognizes and addresses innate needs — or 'givens' — common to all humans. The innovative approach is a highly effective way of dealing with the emotional difficulties faced by young people, and this book covers everything the practitioner needs to know about its theory and practice.

This comprehensive resource offers an essential insight into the emotional well-being of adolescents and a detailed overview of the Human Givens approach, its therapeutic structure and potential outcomes. With a detailed exploration of each Human Givens need, the book provides useful assessment tools and practical interventions, all supported by photocopiable materials that include question sheets for the client and record charts for the practitioner. The book concludes with an informative case study taken from the author's research, which consists of a session-by-session therapeutic outline designed to communicate exactly how Human Givens works in practice.

Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School. David Miller, $35.95

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among young people - most notably in the form of forearm or wrist cutting — occurs across cultural groups, social strata, and developmental stages, puzzling and repelling adults. Because NSSI is often first noticed in the school setting (as is the case with many children's disorders), school professionals are being encouraged to take a more proactive role in intervention.

The book, which is specifically geared toward education personnel, clearly defines NSSI, differentiating it from suicidal, borderline, and other behaviors and analyzing the psychological contexts in which it occurs. This school-based perspective gives readers a practical framework for earlier, more accurate diagnosis; relevant consulting with parents, teachers, and colleagues; and effective, science-based treatment.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults. Sylvie-Naar-King & Mariann Suarez, $38.95

This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context. Filled with vivid examples, sample dialogues, and "dos and don'ts," the book shows how conducting MI from a developmentally informed standpoint can help practitioners quickly build rapport with young patients, enhance their motivation to make healthy changes, and overcome ambivalence. Experts on specific adolescent problems describe MI applications in such key areas as substance abuse, smoking, sexual risk taking, eating disorders and obesity, chronic illness management, and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems.

101 Things to Do on the Street: Games and Resources for Detached, Outreach and Street-Based Youth Work, 2nd Edition. Vanessa Rogers, $31.95

101 THINGS TO DO ON THE STREET is packed with creative and innovative ideas for street games and activities to help young people aged 11-19 explore personal, social and emotional issues.

Specifically designed so that few resources or props are needed, the activities included are all practical, easy to follow, and above all, fun. As well as helping young people get to know each other, they explore issues such as gender stereotypes, offending behaviour, values, trust and street safety. They also aim to improve skills such as teamwork, communication, compromise and negotiation. From role-play and arts and crafts to discussion and quizzes, there are over 100 ideas to meet the needs of young people who choose to meet on the street, which can also be adapted for use elsewhere. This second edition includes information on what detached and outreach work is, tips and ideas on how to get started, staying safe guidelines, and over 30 revised or new activities.

This invaluable resource will be used time and again by outreach youth workers, mobile projects, community development officers, and youth offending teams — in fact anyone working with young people who need tried and tested ideas to engage and motivate outside of building-based provision.

Playing with Fire: Training for Those Working with Young People in Conflict, 2nd edition. Fiona MacBeth & Nic Fine, $52.95

PLAYING WITH FIRE is a structured manual and training programme to help youth counsellors work with young people caught up in conflict and violence. All aspects of conflict are covered, from the initial igniting spark to the roaring blaze.

The manual includes ideas and session plans that can be adapted to the needs of a particular group. Sessions include exercises and activities that explore situations of conflict, develop skills to deal with them, and rehearse techniques for future use. The training section outlines how to deliver the programme, including how to use role-play and work constructively with conflict in the training room.

This second edition includes new sessions on working with issues of identity and prejudice and working with wider community issues, as well as new exercises and activities. Appendices include alternative session plans and ideas on games and group work exercises. This is a valuable guide for youth practitioners and all those working with young people who face conflict or violence.

The Shyness Workbook for Teens. Bernardo Carducci & Teesue Fields, $18.95

Adolescence is a crucial time for learning to deal with shyness and overcoming the pain and difficulty it can cause. This hands-on workbook is a valuable resource for counselors who work with shy teens in schools and other settings. The authors help teens understand the nature and dynamics of shyness, and explain how teens can achieve happiness by learning to be ‘successfully shy.’ Through a series of 30 user-friendly lessons, teens will discover ways to control their shyness instead of letting it control them. The lessons will help them in establishing friendships and intimate relationships, pursuing educational and career opportunities, and fostering personal and family relationships over a lifetime.

Teens in Therapy, Making It Their Own: Engaging Adolescents in Successful Therapy for Responsible Lives. Richard Bromfield, $33.50

Filled with rich case material, TEENS IN THERAPY focuses on the stories and perspectives of adolescents themselves, arming therapists with a clearer sense of purpose and strategy, and giving them the tools necessary to effectively engage their teenage clients in therapy and help them to assume greater responsibility for their treatments and futures.

Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence. Kenneth Hardy & Tracey Laszloffy, $33.50

TEENS WHO HURT presents a framework and specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. Looking at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and societal forces that lead some adolescents to hurt others or themselves the authors discuss effective ways to address each of these factors in clinical and school settings. The book provides essential guidance on connecting with aggressive teens and their parents and managing difficult situations that are likely to arise.

Therapy with Young Men: 16–24 Year Olds in Treatment. Dave Verhaagen, $38.50

Young adult men in their late teens and early twenties are statistically the least happy of any group of males surveyed. Research tells us that adolescent boys and young men have the highest rates of behavioral problems, completed suicides, and drug and alcohol problems of any demographic group. Young men frequently come into therapy with unresolved identity issues, behavioral problems, and drug and alcohol problems. They also tend to have greater problems managing their emotions and successfully negotiating close interpersonal relationships, which makes therapy more complex and challenging. However, when done well, therapy with young men can be highly effective and quite rewarding for both the therapist and client.

In THERAPY WITH YOUNG MEN, Verhaagen presents a comprehensive model of therapy with young men that address each of these concerns, beginning with the rapport and engagement process, and then moving to ways to increase motivation for changing problem behaviors and increasing adaptive skills. The book describes a wide range of novel, effective cognitive-behavioral interventions that can readily be employed in the therapeutic process.

Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens. Marci Fox & Leslie Sokol, $18.95

A cognitive therapy guide to overcoming self-doubt and creating unshakable self-esteem.

What It Takes to Pull Me Through. David Marcus, $28.95

The Academy at Swift River specializes in one of the toughest tasks a school can undertake: helping teenagers in crisis regain their bearings. During a fourteen-month academic term at the school, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David L. Marcus witnesses the intense process that turns these kids around. In his time on campus, Marcus gets to know a diverse and remarkable group of teenagers: a former straight-A student reeling from the death of her mother; a teachers' son grappling with anger over being adopted; a southern girl immersed in drug abuse and unsafe sex and a boy from Queens overwhelmed by depression. Granted full access to the Swift River proceedings, Marcus is given the rare chance to observe the students' struggles and see their transformations from the inside. In WHAT IT TAKES TO PULL ME THROUGH, he charts a path to redemption that any teen, any parent, can follow.

Working with Adolescents: a Guide for Practitioners. Julie Anne Laser & Nicole Nicotera, $40.95

This state-of-the-art practitioner resource and course text provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and spells out effective ways to help teens who are having difficulties. The book illuminates protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual attributes to family, school, neighborhood, and media influences. An ecological perspective is applied to understanding and addressing specific adolescent challenges, including substance abuse, sexual identity issues, mental health problems, risky sexual behavior, and delinquency. Throughout the book, clear-cut assessment and intervention strategies are illustrated with rich case examples.