Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Family Issues

Subjects:

• Literature » Children's & Young Adult Literature
• Psychology » Adolescent Psychology
• Family Resources » Teen/Adolescent Issues

Reviews:

• This handbook provides excellent therapeutic information with a specific analysis of at least one YA novel for each of the issues presented...These professionals provide information on adolescent development and how the psychological, physical, and emotional growth/problems relate to characters in teen novels. A valuable tool to use alone or in conjunction with others in the series.
  —School Library Journal
• ...a valuable bridge between guidance and literature....Kaywell's volume is thorough and thoughfully arranged....The book comes at a good price and an ideal time to aid teachers, administrators, parents, librarians, and students.
  —Library & International Science Annual
• [T]his is an altogether admirable book that offers many open-ended possibilities.
  —READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
• Readers are provieded with the insight into helping teenagers with similar problems, and with the tools to get teenagers reading and addressing their problems.
  —The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• My Three Faces: The Writer, the Therapist, and the Man by Chris Crutcher
• Coping with Parental Illness: Family Discord in Ordinary People by Pam B. Cole and Augustus Y. Napier
• Paul Zindel's My Darling, My Hamburger: A Study in School and Family Conflicts by Jeffrey S. Kaplan and William A. Long, Jr.
• Children of Alcoholics in Shelley Stoehr's Crosses: Teens + Alcoholic Parents = Problems by Diana Mitchell and Pat Zipper
• Delinquency and Family Conflict by Barbara L. Stanford and Roger D. Herring
• When Divorce Comes to Class by Bonnie O. Ericson and Shari Tarver-Behring
• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Issues of Adolescents in Foster Care by Cynthia Ann Bowman and Jennifer Fike
• Eating Disorders in Young Adults' Worlds and Their Literature: Starving and Stuffing Families by Pamela S. Carroll, Mae Z. Cleveland, and Elizabeth M. Myers
• Rights of Passage: Preparing Gay and Lesbian Youth for Their Journey into Adulthood by Patricia L. Daniel and Vicki J. McEntire
• Using Tears of a Tiger for Psychological and Literary Analysis by Sharon M. Draper and James D. Kelly
• Usingr The TV Guidance Counselor to Study Suicide and Its Effect on Families by Jenifer A. Nields, M.D. and Anne C. LeMieux
• A Therapeutic Reader's Response to Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Joan F. Kaywell and Sarah Anderson Powell
• Author Index
• Title Index