This groundbreaking multimedia resource combines text and video to show how recognizing, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths can engage today's teens. This work synthesizes three foundational frameworks, positive youth development, resilience building, and trauma-informed practices into APPLIED strategies professionals can use with young people. 400+ video clips! Earn up to 65 CME/CEU Credits in medicine, nursing, health education, counseling or social work! This groundbreaking multimedia resource embodies ...
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This groundbreaking multimedia resource combines text and video to show how recognizing, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths can engage today's teens. This work synthesizes three foundational frameworks, positive youth development, resilience building, and trauma-informed practices into APPLIED strategies professionals can use with young people. 400+ video clips! Earn up to 65 CME/CEU Credits in medicine, nursing, health education, counseling or social work! This groundbreaking multimedia resource embodies the core belief that identifying, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths can facilitate positive youth development. Text and video combine to show how expert-tested, strength-based communication approaches work in today's teens. Contributions from leading practitioners - plus first-hand perspectives from teens - help you refine your communication strategies and skills. Professionals and teens offer hard-won trauma-informed insight on addressing behavioral and emotional issues; crisis management; stress management; sexuality; grief; depression; peer pressure; substance abuse; sexual abuse; bullying; youth violence. Successful solutions targeting today's foremost youth-development issues Created to benefit all professionals who serve adolescents, Reaching Teens explores and demonstrates communications strategies for diverse healthcare, counseling, youth programming, and educational settings. Reaching Teens is being used throughout the nation by youth serving agencies that use it as a platform to build its skill-sets. It does not add to or replace a program, it enhances staffs' ability to implement all other programs by building our skills as the trusted adults who serve as the foundation of all services. Turn here for actionable advice and counsel spanning your toughest youth communication challenges: How to help teens recognize and build upon their existing strengths How to empower wiser decisions and healthier choices How to foster and build resilience How to work with young people who have endured trauma, toxic stress, or adverse childhood experiences. Three core principles permeate this trauma-informed approach: Knowing "what is about you and what is not about you" as a first step to maintaining empathy even in the face of challenging behaviors Changing your lens from 'What's wrong with you?!?" to "What happened to you?" Giving control back to people from whom control has been taken away. Reaching Teens contains multiple strategies to restoring a sense of control to young people as a first step to them moving towards healthy, wise decisions. How to ally with parents and support effective parenting How to use body language to shift your interactions How to develop and prioritize your interventions How to help with special psychosocial and environmental challenges How to de-escalate crisis situations and lessen shame and stigma How to establish appropriate boundaries How to discourage unhealthy relationships How to serve populations with special healthcare needs How to practice effective self-care that enhances your ability to serve youth . . . and so much more License Reaching Teens for your institution or program! Contact aapsales@aap.org or visit ... for more information.
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