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Playing at being bad the hidden resilience of troubled teens

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Playing at being bad takes a timely look at how adults can keep troubled youth from sinking deeper into delinquent behavior - whether alcohol and drug addiction, violence, depression, or sexual promiscuity. Yet unlike other books about difficult kids that reflect the wisdom of adults, this one explores the truth of adolescence, challenging conventional wisdom to show us the resilience hidden in all young people. Through telling the stories of teens he has worked with for more than fifteen years, Michael Ungar crosses the divide that separates adults from their children - and fills the void of communication in between. Always engaging, often provocative, Playing at Being Bad offers a fresh perspective on the hidden world of teenagers, as well as practical and moral support for anyone seeking to prevent young people from drifting further into trouble. -- from back cover."

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