Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Abuse Issues
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This book deals with four types of abuse: neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. For each type of abuse, selected works of fiction, literary, and professional perspectives are juxtaposed along with applications for utilizing the stories in a hypothetical therapy setting. In addition, reports of mental health workers, organizations, agencies, statistics, cases studies, and important research findings regarding each type of abuse are summarized. Web links are provided as well as information on finding the professional print resources cited. Suggestions for additional fiction suitable for bibliotherapy are provided. This is an invaluable resource for teachers, parents, and any adults interested in helping teens battling with the damage of abuse.
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Abuse Issues
Teaching with Books that Heal: Authentic Literature and Literacy Strategies to Help Children Cope with Everyday Problems
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Help children learn coping skills through literature! Includes meaningful lessons and resources to help students deal with special emotional issues. ·This book answers the often repeated question, “Is there a children’s book I can read in my classroom to give children insight into significant life events?” ·Literature ideas and activities help students cope with real-life situations, such as bullying, that interfere with school ·This book will assist educators in guiding and nurturing children’s special issues and concerns with outstanding, ready-to-go reading and writing lessons ·Includes research-based teaching tips for educators on how to help children deal with their emotions ·Provides stimulating, pedagogically sound lessons any teacher or librarian could use to smooth troubled classroom relations and events Every school library needs a copy of this book to share with students and teachers. This professional resource for K-6 educators and parents uses literature with identifiable characters to help children who are facing challenges in their lives. This book contains resources related to classroom situations like bullying, peer acceptance, peer pressure, and being different as well as family situations such as death, divorce, adoption, and sibling rivalry. Use these standards-based reading and writing lessons to address real-life sensitive issues affecting today’s students.
Teaching with Books that Heal: Authentic Literature and Literacy Strategies to Help Children Cope with Everyday Problems
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues
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The traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of today’s adolescents have become interwoven due to the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. Through appropriate literature, adolescents can find the power to heal and renew their lives. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels that can help adolescents struggling with health issues. Educators and therapists explore novels where common health issues are addressed in ways to captivate teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on encouraging adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills.
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues
