When Kids Hurt: Help for Adults Navigating the Adolescent Maze

by Chap Clark, Steve Rabey

Overview

What's really going on in the hidden world of today's teenagers?

To get below the surface, Chap Clark spent a year in a high school and inter viewed dozens of students about everything from their families and social lives to their loneliness and insecurity. An alarming picture emerged: adults have abandoned kids to navigate the ever-lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood on their own, and the results are devastating. Unable to cope with the pressures of expectations and hurt of abandonment, teenagers retreat to their own world of youth culture to survive, and few adults care enough to engage them there.

Here Clark and Rabey sum up the provocative research, which was detailed in Clark's bestselling book Hurt, and lay out practical ways caring adults can have a profound impact on teens. This book is an essential guide for youth pastors and volunteer leaders, educators, counselors, parents, and all adults seeking to reach out to today's adolescents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441204134
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	978 KB

About the Author

Chap Clark is vice dean for the School of Theology and Regional Campuses Master's Programs and professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Seminary; senior editor of Youthworker Journal; and the author of several books on adolescence, parenting, and youth ministry.

Steve Rabey is an award-winning writer and editor who has authored or collaborated on over twenty books. He is currently the managing editor of Youthworker Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Excellent Adventure 7

Part 1 Kids' Brave New World

1 The Changing Face of Adolescence 15

2 Abandoned and All Alone 31

3 Exploring the World Beneath 49

Part 2 Inside the Lives of Today's Teens

4 From Cliques to Clusters 65

5 School Daze 79

6 Fractured Family Values 91

7 Good Sports 107

8 Sexual but Not Satisfied 119

9 Our Overstressed Adolescents 131

10 In Search of Ethics and Morality 149

11 I Party, Therefore I Am 163

Part 3 Helping Our Kids Cope and Grow

12 How Adults Can Help Our Kids 175

Conclusion: The Adventure Continues 193

Acknowledgments 199

Sources Cited 201