Recommended Reading:
Listed below are books recommended by PATH.
Lost
Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent & How We Can Save Them
by James Garbarino
A leading psychologist examines the recent explosion of adolescent violence, identifies
children at risk, and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior. Read
more...
Raising
Resilient Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
by James Garbarino
The world has become a socially toxic place, dangerous to the health and well-being
of children and adolescents. This extraordinary books offers a ray of hope, explaining
not only how a socially toxic world affects child development, but how parents,
policy makers and concerned citizens can take action and make a major difference.Read
more...
The
Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated,
'Chronically Inflexible' Children
by Ross Greene
His text is long and serious, and has the advantage of covering an enormous amount
of ground with nuance, detail, and sympathy, but also perhaps the disadvantage
that only those parents who are not chronically tired and time-deprived are likely
to get through the entire book. Quoted dialogue from actual sessions wit parents
and children is interspersed with analysis that is always oriented toward understanding
the origins of "meltdowns" and developing workable strategies for avoidance.
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more...
Your
Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior
by Russell Barkley & Christine Benton
Every child has "ornery" moments, but more than 1 in 20 American children
exhibit behavioral problems that are out of control. For readers struggling with
an unyielding or combative child, this book offers the understanding and guidance
they need. Read
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Defiant
Teens: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention
Russell A. Barkley, Gwenyth H. Edwards, Arthur L. Robin
"Barkley, Edwards, and Robin provide an extremely practical and practitioner-friendly
guide for working with teens who are noncompliant and defiant toward their parents.
Importantly, the intervention manual synthesizes best practices that are developmentally
sound and empirically based. Read
more...
The
Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising and Enjoying Five 'Difficult' Types
of Children
by Stanely Greenspan and Jacqueline Salmon
The Challenging Child offers calm, reassuring advice to parents. Stanley I. Greenspan
is a practicing child psychiatrist and helps parents dealing with all types of
difficult children. He reveals the parenting patterns to avoid and helps adults
tailor their approach to a child's particular needs. Read
more...
Reviving
Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by Mary Pipher
Pipher's alarming tales of a generation swamped by pain may be partly informed
by her role as a therapist who sees troubled children and teens, but her sketch
of a tougher, more menacing world for girls often hits the mark. She offers some
prescriptions for changing society and helping girls resist. Read
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Ophelia
Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
by Sara Shandler
Shandler reveals telling portraits of teenage girls in this book, a compilation
of essays, poems, and true-grit commentary from a cross section of teenage girls
(or Ophelias), throughout the country. The book succeeds because it gives voice
to their deepest concerns and their too-often frenzied lives. Read
more...
The
Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities
by Lawrence Shulman
Advances theory and practice models that acknowledge and incorporate recognition
of, and building upon, clients' strengths and learned coping skills. The textbook
has been a staple in the classroom and in the field for more than 100,000 social-work
students in the U.S. and Canada since it first was published. Read
more...
Stress,
Coping & Relationships in Adolescents
by Inge Seiffge-Krenke Read
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