Books in the The Greenwood Press Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Series series

By examining fictional characters, these experts provide guidance to those working with teenagers, so they can encourage adolescents to deal with the conflicts and issues imposed upon them by our society while improving their reading and writing skills. Eight important social issues are explored each in a separate chapter.

These themes vary from coping with the death of a parent, to coping with violent deaths, to coping with an AIDS-related death.

Today, illnesses and the high risk behaviour of adolescents have become interrelated through the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. This work provides a link for teachers and media specialists to those novels that can help adolescents with health issues.

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.

In this resource literacy experts and therapists provide guidance, through the examination and analysis of characters in young adult literature, to those working with troubled teens in an attempt to help professionals and parents gain insight into the inner workings of teenagers.

This book deals with four types of abuse: neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. For each type of abuse, selected works of fiction, literary, and professional perspectives are juxtaposed along with applications for utilizing the stories in a hypothetical therapy setting.