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Print Price: $73.99

Format:
Paperback
168 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190657109

Copyright Year:
2017

Imprint: OUP US

Innovative Skills to Support Well-Being and Resiliency in Youth

Nicole Nicotera and Julie Anne Laser-Maira

Innovative Skills to Support Well-Being and Resiliency in Youth emphasizes the step-by-step procedures readers will need to implement evidence-based, innovative techniques and skills that emphasize well-being and resilience in youth. The strategies are specifically chosen to capture and hold the interest of youth who are often reticent to counseling. Furthermore, the skills-based approach of the book aims to demystify what one actually does in session with youth by moving away from the vagueness of talk therapy when youth have nothing to say, and toward sessions that engage youth in action, stimulating communication and change.

Innovative Skills to Support Well-Being and Resiliency in Youth also advocates for practice interventions that empower youth to be in charge of their personal well-being and the healing process. By doing so, youth can take an active role in their own healthy functioning, as opposed to passively receiving treatment.

Readership : Any social worker, counselor, psychologist, therapist, practitioner, clinician, or interventionist with youth could benefit from this book. It is a good fit for courses that focus on foundational clinical practice because it will add hands-on training and skill application to the general theories for practice that these courses teach. The text would be effective in advanced BSW, as well as MSW classes where clinical skills and an understanding of youth behavior and interventions with youth are being learned. The book could also be used in educational psychology classes, adolescent development classes in education, counseling, or psychology, family and consumer sciences classes that focus on life span or adolescent development and adolescent or clinical psychology classes.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Well-Being and Resilience
2. Healthy Sexuality
3. Innovative Cognitive Behavior Therapies
4. Mindfulness and Mind-Body Connection
5. Experiential Therapy
6. Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)
7. Horticultural and Agricultural Therapy
8. Parting Words
Index

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Nicole Nicotera, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Julie Anne Laser-Maira, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver.

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Special Features

Features a link between the active interventions and specific characteristics of positive youth development, thereby helping instructors teach students to put theory in action.
Includes step-by-step guides for each intervention, showing classroom/field instructors how to implement activities as teaching activities while empowering students to "know what to do" with a client in session.
Provides the basics needed for assessment within the framework of the intervention on which the chapter is based, helping instructors teach students to conduct active assessments that align with a particular practice.
Provides succinct summaries of supporting evidence for the innovative approaches.