Building Self-Esteem in At-Risk Youth - Peer Group Programs and Individual Success Stories

List of contents

Introduction
Peer Group Programs: Their Goals, Stages, and Techniques
Modern Peer Group Ideas: To What Extent Will They Succeed to Integrate At-Risk Youth?
Counseling and Caring: How Individual Psychologists, Counselors, Teachers, and Volunteers Can Intervene with At-Risk Youth
Meaningful Events in the Lives of Professionals: Helping At-Risk Youth Be Free to Learn and Succeed
Opportunities for Change: The Real Chances to Provide Self-Esteem and to Prevent Warehousing of Our At-Risk Youth
Conclusion: What Needs to Be Done
Epilogue
Appendix I: Contents for Curriculum: Leadership Training and Drug Alcohol Prevention and Intervention (1988)
Appendix II: Session V: Peer Pressure
Appendix III: Session XVI: Drug and Alcohol Information
Appendix IV: Session XVII: Drugs and Society Session XVIII: Drugs and Family
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

IVAN C. FRANK is a noted American educator and expert on high-risk youth. Frank has been teaching in high schools, colleges and youth centers for over 30 years and currently runs workshops on teaching high-risk youth. His previous books include Children in Chaos (Praeger, 1992), and The Cycle of Learning (1984).

Product details

• Authors: Ivan C. Frank, Frank Ivan C.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1996
• EAN: 9780275952679
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95267-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child welfare, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Child welfare and youth services, Current Events and Issues: Society