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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Family Issues
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Joan F. Kaywell, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-30335-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30335-7
328 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/1999
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £35.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Being literate increases a person's chances of enjoying good mental health, but many of today's teenagers come from backgrounds or circumstances that interfere with their literacy development. This unique resource for teachers, librarians, counselors and parents combines the expertise of two professionals: literacy experts and therapists. Together they provide guidance, through the examination and analysis of characters in young adult literature, to those working with troubled teens. Thereby helping professionals and parents gain insight into the inner workings of teenagers and encourage them to deal with their family issues and emotional problems while improving their reading and writing skills.

A young adult literature expert and a therapist, including such authors as Chris Crutcher and Anne LeMieux, team up for each chapter. They provide possible treatment options for young adult protagonists in popular novels that address issues associated with families. These issues include divorce, parental illness, alcoholism, foster care, eating disorders, gay and lesbian teenagers, and suicide. Readers are provided with the insight into helping teenagers with similar problems, and with the tools to get teenagers reading and addressing their problems. Extensive annotated bibliographies in each chapter help the reader choose the best sources for each particular case.
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
About the Author: JOAN F. KAYWELL is an award-winning Associate Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida. She is President-elect of ALAN, the Adolescent Literature Column Editor for English Journal, and a reviewer for The New Advocate. She is the author of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volumes One, Two and Three and Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (Greenwood Press, 1993).
LCC Class: 615
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