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“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike many other books about difficult kids that reflect the wisdom of adults, this one explores the truth of adolescence. It builds on recent explorations of youth such as Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia, Judith Rich Harris’ The Nurture Assumption, and William Pollack’s Real Boys. It examines emerging trends in psychology, as well as recent innovations in work with our most unhealthy young people. Playing at Being Bad offers particular insight for parents, teachers, and caregivers of troubled youth just beginning, or already stuck in, patterns of delinquency, drug or alcohol addiction, sexual promiscuity, violence, suicide, depression, and truancy. This book tells the story of the teens Ungar worked with for more than fifteen years, taking a close look at the crises kids face, while exploring the important role that adults can play in keeping dangerous and delinquent youth from drifting further into trouble.
Unlike many other books about difficult kids that reflect the wisdom of adults, this one explores the truth of adolescence. It builds on recent explorations of youth such as Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia, Judith Rich Harris’ The Nurture Assumption, and William Pollack’s Real Boys. It examines emerging trends in psychology, as well as recent innovations in work with our most unhealthy young people. Playing at Being Bad offers particular insight for parents, teachers, and caregivers of troubled youth just beginning, or already stuck in, patterns of delinquency, drug or alcohol addiction, sexual promiscuity, violence, suicide, depression, and truancy. This book tells the story of the teens Ungar worked with for more than fifteen years, taking a close look at the crises kids face, while exploring the important role that adults can play in keeping dangerous and delinquent youth from drifting further into trouble.
About the Author
An internationally recognized expert on resilience in at-risk youth and the leader of the International Resilience Project, MICHAEL UNGAR runs a private practice specializing in working with children and adults in mental health and correctional settings, and is a professor at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University. He lives in Halifax with his wife and two children.
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A Must Read for Parents and Youth Workers,
By Ian 'Tay' Landry, MA MSW RSW (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playing at Being Bad (Paperback)
As a parent and social worker I found Playing at Being Bad: The hidden resilience of troubled teens by Michael Ungar to be an enlightening and thought provoking examination of 'troubled' youth. Through the sharing of his observations and learnings from 20 years of working with 'troubled' youth Ungar challenges parents, caregivers and service providers to look beyond the behavior of 'troubled' youth and their relationship with 'troubled' peers to see the resilience they have developed for themselves. He highlights the importance of truly listening to teens as the tell the stories of their quest for identity, acceptance and power over their environment. He emphasizes how important it is for anyone who is working with 'troubled' youth to find innovative, individualized interventions. This book is a must read for anyone who works with youth, as well as parents, or soon to be parents, of adolescents.
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A Must Read for Parents and Youth Workers,
By Ian 'Tay' Landry, MA MSW RSW - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Playing at Being Bad (Paperback)
As a parent and social worker I found Playing at Being Bad: The hidden resilience of troubled teens by Michael Ungar to be an enlightening and thought provoking examination of `troubled' youth. Through the sharing of his observations and learnings from 20 years of working with `troubled' youth Ungar challenges parents, caregivers and service providers to look beyond the behavior of `troubled' youth and their relationship with `troubled' peers to see the resilience they have developed for themselves. He highlights the importance of truly listening to teens as the tell the stories of their quest for identity, acceptance and power over their environment. He emphasizes how important it is for anyone who is working with `troubled' youth to find innovative, individualized interventions. This book is a must read for anyone who works with youth, as well as parents, or soon to be parents, of adolescents.
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