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Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues (The Greenwood Press "Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers" Series)
Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues (The Greenwood Press Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Series)

 enlarge 		Creator: Jeffrey S. Kaplan
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1642402

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9

ISBN: 0313305323
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.891660835
EAN: 9780313305320
ASIN: 0313305323

Publication Date: November 30, 1999
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Product Description
The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt, meant to help people discover themselves and who they are. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels and how to use them effectively. Educators and therapists explore the literature where common identity issues are addressed in ways intriguing to teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on how to encourage adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills. Twelve novels are examined from both a literary and psychological perspective, allowing the readers to meet the central figures as if they were living human beings. Each chapter is written by a literature specialist who has teamed up with a therapist and confronts a different identity issue, examining such dilemmas as body image, the father/son relationship, bigotry, and peer relations. This pair of experts tries to define the central character's struggle in each novel to discover "who they are" and to become self-actualized individuals. Each chapter also provides an annotated bibliography of other works, both fiction and nonfiction, that explore these same issues to give readers not only the insight into helping teenagers with similar problems, but also the tools with which to get teenagers reading and addressing these problems. This innovative approach is meant to provide the opportunity for adults and adolescents to better understand each other.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Way too little to offer!   November 10, 2006
I purchased this book to help me determine the best literature to use with teens as part of a bioliotherapy group. This book was far from what I expected based on the description I read. First, this book only contains 6 or 7 book recommendations, and while they are well-analyzed for the varying issues/therapeutic components they contain, 6 books is not much to choose from.

Each section of the book tackles a topic such as an eating disorder or sexual identity and then pairs a novel with that topic. Each novel is described in brevity and then this is followed by a psychoanalytic explanation of the characters, plot, conflict, etc.

If you're wanting a comprehensive list of fiction that touches on various therapeutic topics... this is not for you!


5 out of 5 stars Go dad   January 21, 2001
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Hi this book was edited by my dad. We are so proud of his many accomplishments.I hope he edites more books. Being a teenager i have alot of identity issues. Well hope you like my dads book! Love ya dad , Lauren

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