Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Societal Issues

Subjects:

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

Reviews:

• ...offers a psycholigical perspective into the lives of teenagers today and is a resource filled with a broard range of contemporary literature to use with middle and high school teachers.
  —Alternative Network Journal September 2001
• This compelling, scholarly, and rich analysis encourages the use of both fiction and nonfiction to help students understand issues they, or their peers, may be facing. The introduction is a powerful, well-documented profile of today's teen.... The extensive literary analyses, which cover classic titles but more frequently contemporary ones, are effectively presented and well supported by a question-and-answer section addressing how the literature can help a struggling teen. Librarians, classroom teachers, and counselors will find elements of this book helpful in reaching at-risk youth when direct personal intervention is simply not enough.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
• This book will be an excellent addition to a professional library....[It] should have broad appeal because all teenagers could experience at one time or another many of the problems described in this book, yet not be labeled as "troubled teens."...an outstanding addition to the Greenwood Press series.
  —English Journal
• Provides excellent recommendations of young adult titles for each of the societal issues presented.... The editor has pulled together a fine collection of essays recognizing some of the best literature written for today's teens.
  —VOYA
• [W]ill be popular with teachers, library media specialists and public librarians....Recommended as excellent background reading for persons entering the field who want to try to understand the teenage animal.
  —Reference for Students -- GaleGroup.com Reviews

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword by Joan F. Kaywell
• Introduction: The New Realities of Growing Up Today
• Society's "At Risk" Teenager: What It Means by Kathryn H. Kelly with Elaine Beaudoin
• Body Image and Society's Impact by M. Linda Broughton and Mae Z. Cleveland
• Society's Impact on Adolescents and Their Sexuality by Elizabeth L. Watts and LaShawnda Eggelletion
• Adolescent Rape by Gail P. Gregg and Maureen Kenny
• Sports in the Life of Today's Adolescents by Pamela S. Carroll and Steven B. Chandler
• Music and Musician's Effects on Adolescents by Lawrence Baines, Elizabeth Strehle, and Steven Bell with Josh Murfree
• Ethics in Athletics for Adolescents by Chris Crowe and Mel Olson
• Leaving Home: Transitions and Independence by Connie S. Zitlow with Janet M. Rogers
• Index