At Risk Youth [Paperback]

This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that students need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. The authors discuss the latest prevention and intervention techniques that will help future and current professionals perform their jobs successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk. New content discusses such new approaches as the flipped classroom and mindfulness approaches; expanded content covers LGBTQI youth, youth with disabilities, immigrant youth, and incarcerated youth, among other topics. The accompanying Instructors Manual (IM) and CourseMate provide ideas for group and individual projects, role-plays and practice exercises, journaling, discussion board postings, and reading and writing assignments. The IM also includes quiz items, reflection questions, You Tube/TEDTalks links, PowerPoint? slides to aid in teaching the class, and material on legal and ethical issues formerly presented in the text.Part I: AT-RISK CHILDREN AND YOUTH: THE ECOLOGY OF PROBLEMS. 1. An Introduction to At-Risk Issues. 2. Environmental/Societal Factors That Contribute to Risk. Part II: FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, SKILLS. 3. Family Problems of At-Risk Children and Youth. 4. School Issues That Relate to At-Risk Children and Youth. 5. Individual Characteristics of High-Risk and Low-Risk Children and Youth. Part III: AT-RISK CATEGORIES. 6. School Dropout. 7. Substance Use and Addiction. 8. Risky Sexual Behavior: Teenage Pregnancy and STDs. 9. Youth Violence: Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, and Youth Gangs. 10. Youth Suicide. Part IV: PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT APPROACHES. 11. A Prevention/Early Intervention/Treatment Framework and Other Environmental Considerations. 12. Core Components of Programs for Prevention and Early Intervention. 13. Peer Interventions. 14. Family Interventions.