A Leader's Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong: How to Foster Resilience in Teens (Updated Edition)

by Sybil Wolin (Editor), Al Desetta (Editor), Keith Hefner (Editor)

Overview

Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong.

Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader’s guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens’ resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect on them, relate them to their lives, recognize their own potential for resilience, and start building resilience skills.
 
Introductory materials offer guidelines for group leadership and provide leaders with more information about the seven resiliencies:

• insight
• independence
• relationships
• initiative
• creativity
• humor
• morality

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631984631
Publisher:	Free Spirit Publishing
Publication date:	08/26/2019
Series:	Free Spirit Professional®
Edition description:	Updated Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Sybil Wolin, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist and was codirector of Project Resilience from 1987 to 2000. She lives on the Chesapeake Bay with her husband.

Al Desetta, M.A., was an editor at Youth Communication, a New York based nonprofit organization that teaches writing, journalism, and leadership skills to inner-city teens, from 1985 until 2002.

He is currently a freelance editor.

Keith Hefner is Executive Director of Youth Communication, a New York-based nonprofit organization that teaches writing, journalism, and leadership skills to inner-city teens. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in youth development.

Editorial Reviews

A unique and empowering guide for anyone concerned with youth development. A Leader’s Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong presents a creative and insightful connection of thirty stories written by teens about their own struggles to the seven resiliencies developed by Sybil and Steven Wolin. This is a masterpiece of strengths-based practice! It is refreshing and truly empowering to find a book that uses kids’ struggles and pride to help other kids identify their unique resiliencies. . . . The concrete session plans offer suggestions for group leader preparation and practical suggestions for using the thirty stories in The Struggle to Be Strong. An excellent and one-of-a-kind resource for changing hearts and minds! I will immediately give a personal copy to my teachers and group leaders.

Erik K. Laursen

The moving stories in The Struggle to Be Strong and the accompanying Leader’s Guide are very important resources for all working to improve the lives of young people. The teens’ own words stress the importance of resilience, building on inner strengths, asking tough questions, being one’s self, connecting with people who matter, taking charge, using imagination and humor, and doing the right thing. We adults should act on their valuable insights.

Marian Wright Edelman