Books by David A. Wolfe

This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers.  The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the “rules of relating” for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.

Examines the conceptual and program models that exist for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation at different jurisdictional levels. The book explores the traditional neoclassical approach to innovation policy and more recent evolutionary approaches.

En tant que parent, vous recherchez de l'information pratique, précise et facile à appliquer pour vous aider à élever votre adolescente ou votre adolescent. Vous voulez savoir quels comportements sont considérés comme normaux à l'adolescence, comment déterminer si votre enfant est sur la bonne voie, comment encourager son développement sain et comment obtenir de l'aide lorsque des problèmes surgissent. Ce que les parents doivent savoir sur leurs adolescents est un livret qui aborde ces questions de façon conviviale. L'auteur, David A.Wolfe, est un psychologue clinique qui travaille auprès d'enfants et d'adolescents depuis plus de 25 ans. Il est titulaire de la Chaire d'études RBC en santé mentale infantile au Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale. Dans le cadre de son travail, il a souvent rencontré des parents qui se sentent dépassés par les problèmes et situations dont leur parlent leurs adolescents, surtout lorsque, de leur temps, ces problèmes n'existaient pas. Ce livret aborde les inquiétudes des parents. Rédigé dans un langage simple et familier, Ce que les parentsdoivent savoir sur leurs adolescents aborde les faits et les mythes à propos de la vie des adolescents et de leur relation avec leurs parents. Il propose des stratégies pour aider les parents à préparer leurs adolescents à assumer de nouvelles responsabilités et à faire face aux pressions qui peuvent les accompagner. Chaque section du livret traite d'une stratégie parentale différente: 1. Un parent efficace: équilibre entre sensibilité et fermeté 2. Mettre l'accent sur la sécurité, la responsabilité et le respect des règles 3. Montrer, ne pas uniquement critiquer 4. Comprendre le développement de votre adolescent et son effet sur vos rapports 5. Comprendre les pressions et les risques auxquels votre adolescent fait face.

As a parent, you want practical, accurate and user friendly information to help raise your teen. You want to know what's considered normal adolescent behaviour, how to determine whether your child is on a good path, how to encourage your teen's healthy development, and how to get help when problems arise. What Parents Need to Know about Teens is an easy-to-read booklet that addresses these issues. Author David A. Wolfe is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children and teens for more than 25 years. He holds the RBC Chair in Children's Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In his work, Dr. Wolfe has often encountered parents who describe feeling overwhelmed with the problems their teenage children bring home, especially when some of these difficulties didn't exist when they were growing up themselves. This booklet is a response to parents' concerns. Written in chatty, down-to-earth language, What Parents Need to Know about Teens addresses the facts and myths of teen life and teens' relationships with parents. The booklet focuses on strategies to help parents prepare teens for new responsibilities and the pressures that may accompany them. Each section of the booklet is devoted to a different parenting strategy: 1. Be an effective parent: Balance sensitivity and firmness. 2. Place an emphasis on safety, responsibility and obeying rules. 3. Teach-don't just criticize. 4. Understand your teen's development-and how it affects your relationship. 5. Understand the pressures-and the risks-your teen faces.

Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best opportunity for promoting healthy, non-violent relationships is to intervene during adolescence, when peer relationships and interpersonal style become firmly established. The proactive, competency-enhancing programme is designed to build strengths, resilience and coping skills in young people.Carefully developed and tested in the field, the 18-session group training programme has three principal sections, covering informational, skill-building and social action learning opportunities. The manual provides a detailed curriculum for the programme, which is designed for eight to