When Kids Hurt: Help for Adults Navigating the Adolescent Maze

by Chap Clark, Steve Rabey

Overview

Chap Clark's groundbreaking Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers struggling to navigate the ever lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood without caring adults.

When Kids Hurt offers these challenging insights to youth workers and parents in a more accessible form, with greater focus on how adults should respond. Practical sidebars and application sections, contributed by other youth experts, provide additional insights into youth culture and how adults can better guide adolescents into adulthood. This book will be an important resource for youth workers, parents, counselors, and others who work with youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801071836
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

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